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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Lyricists play with words.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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One may not eat what has a face.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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