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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.

Paul McCartney

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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Land Rain Spoil Way
Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Song Togetherness Trick Work
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
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Pieces Room
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
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Pool Resource Writing Yourself
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Junk Shop Window
I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Feeling Myself Planning Writing
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Guitar Instrument Myself Song Thrill
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Ideas Life Magic Paint Process Reality Yourself
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Music Myself Song Writing
We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

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

Home Myself Play Retirement
It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Call Gift Time Yourself
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
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

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