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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.

Paul McCartney

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 MCCARTNEY

Guitar Instrument Myself Song Thrill
I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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Black Hall Kind Music Oneself
Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Body Father Food Myself Notice
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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Pool Resource Writing Yourself
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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Accomplishment Award Better Yourself
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
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
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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End Kind Life Myself Time
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
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Love Man Myself Wife
I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Future Myself Past
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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Junk Shop Window
Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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Forever Love Time
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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Better Land Rain Spoil Way
To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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Day Growth Love Myself Play
What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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Emotional Wrong Yourself
I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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Eat Enough Retirement Time 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
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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Mindset Ourselves Play
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Calm Meditation Myself
Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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Cool Music Religion Yourself
There will be an answer. Let it be.
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Acceptance Answer One Liner Wisdom
I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Drugs Realize
Think globally, act locally.
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Act Business Global Local Myself Thinking
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Call Myself People Thinking Weird
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Music Myself Song Writing

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.

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