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 MCCARTNEYTranscendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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.
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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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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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?
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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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 have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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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!.
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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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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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