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.
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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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Lyricists play with words.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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Hamburg 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!
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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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.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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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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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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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