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 MCCARTNEYI’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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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 have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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It’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.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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