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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.

Paul McCartney

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Home Myself Play Retirement
I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Meditation Myself Need People Result Thinking
Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Greatness Myself Record Time
Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Blow Hard Life Warning Wind Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Existence Moments Myself Sex Song
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Choir Face Humanity Love Music Myself Optimistic Reality Team Work
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Herself Mom See Work
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Goodness Legend Man Music Myself People Play Thinking
I don’t work at being ordinary.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Inspirational Myself One Liner Ordinary Self Love Work
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?
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Life Moon Yourself
Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Happiness Jump Sadness Tears
But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Color Important Sadness Writing Wrong
The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Greatness Musician
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.’
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Enough Greatness Myself Writing
When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Alert Awake Day Greatness Wide Yourself
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Heart Kind People Structure

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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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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