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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.

Paul McCartney

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Music Myself Thinking
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Accomplishment Award Better 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
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Heart Live Young Yourself
If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Goodness Musician Play
The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Greatness Musician
But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Color Important Sadness Writing Wrong
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
I think the French girls are fabulous.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fabulous Thinking
I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Eat Enough Retirement Time Yourself
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
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Boredom Children Excitement Live Start Thinking
When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Approve Myself Time Writing
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Known Myself
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adult Grow Up Interesting Kind Music Symbol
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 MCCARTNEY

Choir Face Humanity Love Music Myself Optimistic Reality Team Work
Lyricists play with words.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Lyrics Play Word
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
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
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
My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Ideas Message Myself Peace
Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Song Togetherness Trick Work
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Formal Ideas Improvisation Kind Music Myself Writing
It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Beautiful Friendship Myself Powerful Song
So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Cook Kind Myself
For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Follow Myself Rain Sun

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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