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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.

Paul McCartney

By 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Criticism Myself Open Performance Time Writing
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Calm Meditation Myself
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Junk Shop Window
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

End Love Relationship Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Allow Artist Opinion People Yourself
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Instrument Myself Practice Singer
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Amazing Couple Follow Music Myself Similar Thrill Time
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Children Food Myself Yourself
The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Himself Weather Willow
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adult Grow Up Interesting Kind Music Symbol
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Choir Face Humanity Love Music Myself Optimistic Reality Team Work
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Guitar Instrument Myself Song Thrill
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Herself Mom See Work
There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Record Store
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?
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Life Moon Yourself
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 MCCARTNEY

Approve Myself Time Writing

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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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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