One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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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.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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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.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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