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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.

Paul McCartney

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fellow Hell Job Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dreams Money Myself Need Stop Thinking
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Instrument Myself Practice Singer
Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Cool Music Religion Yourself
I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Believe Better Love Message Myself Need
It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Beautiful Friendship Myself Powerful Song
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Ideas Life Magic Paint Process Reality Yourself
I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Drugs Realize
And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Light Night Shine
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Children Food Myself Yourself
What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Emotional Wrong Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Brain Myself Stretch
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Heart Kind People Structure
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Past
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

End Love Relationship Yourself

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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