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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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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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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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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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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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