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 MCCARTNEYWhen you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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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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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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