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 MCCARTNEYBuy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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.
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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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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.
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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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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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