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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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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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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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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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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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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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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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