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.’
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen 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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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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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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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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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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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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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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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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