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.
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 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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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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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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I 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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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Lyricists play with words.
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Think globally, act locally.
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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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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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