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.
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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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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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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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Think globally, act locally.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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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.
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