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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYMy arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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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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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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 will be an answer. Let it be.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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