And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
PAUL MCCARTNEYA hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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I’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.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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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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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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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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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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Lyricists play with words.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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