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• Neither Paul McCart­ney nor John Lennon could read or write music nota­tion.
• “Men of lofty genius some­times accom­plish the most when they work least, for their minds are occu­pied with their ideas and the perfec­tion of their con­cep­tions, to which they after­wards give form.” “While paint­ing The Last Sup­per, Leonar­do would some ­times stare at the work for an hour, final­ly make one small stroke, and then leave,” writes Wal­ter Isaac­son.