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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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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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One may not eat what has a face.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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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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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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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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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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