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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYOne of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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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 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 meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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