Lyricists play with words.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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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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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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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