If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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.
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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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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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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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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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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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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.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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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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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.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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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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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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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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