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When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.

Paul McCartney

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Noise Song
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 as glamorous to me as a record store.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Record Store
We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fight Friendship Life Myself Time Work
I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Doubt Music Myself
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Age Grow Up Myself
Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Forever Love Time
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Children Growth Identity
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

End Kind Life Myself Time
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Pieces Room
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Listening Music Myself People Way
To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dance Thinking Yourself
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
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

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Change Myself Point
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

When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.

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