At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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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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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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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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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 think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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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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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 don’t work at being ordinary.
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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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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.
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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.
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