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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

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Amazing Couple Follow Music Myself Similar Thrill Time
Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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Animation Children Drugs
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

Formal Ideas Improvisation Kind Music Myself Writing
If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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Life Love Yourself
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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Allow Artist Opinion People Yourself
I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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Believe Better Love Message Myself Need
I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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Himself Leadership Old Quick Smart
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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Myself Noise Song
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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Children Growth Identity
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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Home Myself Play Retirement
The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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Goodness Limitation Love World
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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Natural Quite Weird Yourself
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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Choir Face Humanity Love Music Myself Optimistic Reality Team Work
The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
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Greatness Musician
I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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Better Improvement Myself Time
Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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Karma Line Pay
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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Identity Known People Reality
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.
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Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
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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Aware Care Oneself Ourselves Planet Space
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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Boredom Children Excitement Live Start Thinking
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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Arrest Known Myself Prison Sing
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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Existence Moments Myself Sex Song
One may not eat what has a face.
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Eat Face Food One Liner
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Death Known Myself
I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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One Liner Religious Spiritual
Think globally, act locally.
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Act Business Global Local Myself Thinking
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Instrument Myself Practice Singer

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