When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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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 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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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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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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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Think globally, act locally.
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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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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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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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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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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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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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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