Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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Lyricists play with words.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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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 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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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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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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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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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