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 MCCARTNEYIf children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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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 don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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