I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’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?
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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 we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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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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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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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