I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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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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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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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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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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