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 MCCARTNEYThere’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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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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.
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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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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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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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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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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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