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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBut with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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.
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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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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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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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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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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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