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 MCCARTNEYWhen you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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Lyricists play with words.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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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.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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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 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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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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