It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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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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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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