It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBut with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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Lyricists play with words.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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.
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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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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.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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