When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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The 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.
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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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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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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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It’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?
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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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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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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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