The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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.”
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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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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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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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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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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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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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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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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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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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