I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWe got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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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 took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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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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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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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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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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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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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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