By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf I were dead, I would be the last to know.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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