I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTrumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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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.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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