I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBy 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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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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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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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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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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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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