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 MCCARTNEYThe 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 MCCARTNEYBut with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSomewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSongs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
PAUL MCCARTNEYHamburg 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!
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAnd what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
PAUL MCCARTNEYI took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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