We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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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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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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