No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
PAUL MCCARTNEYA 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 only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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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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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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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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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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