It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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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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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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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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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.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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Think globally, act locally.
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Lyricists play with words.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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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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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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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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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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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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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