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 MCCARTNEYOut 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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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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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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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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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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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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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.
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