Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen 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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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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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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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One may not eat what has a face.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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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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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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY