One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere is good and bad in everyone.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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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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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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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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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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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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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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Think globally, act locally.
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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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