At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
PAUL MCCARTNEYPutting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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