There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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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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Think globally, act locally.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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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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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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