Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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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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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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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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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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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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