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 MCCARTNEYI’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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