Lyricists play with words.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTo get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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.
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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 realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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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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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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