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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.

Paul McCartney

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

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

Pool Resource Writing Yourself
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.’
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Enough Greatness Myself Writing
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Junk Shop Window
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 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Song Thinking Writing
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Natural Quite Weird Yourself
I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Improvement Myself Time
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 have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Instrument Myself Practice Singer
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Future Myself Past
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Creation Hands Myself People Simplicity Thinking
Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Happiness Jump Sadness Tears
Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Song Togetherness Trick Work
Think globally, act locally.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Act Business Global Local Myself Thinking
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adventure Drink Whistle

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