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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBut you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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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.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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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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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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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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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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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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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.’
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