McCartney’s creativity in 3 photographs
Many bits about the notorious member of the Beatles and how he does what he does best: create music.
My favorites:
- From an interview with Morgan Neville, director of the documentary Man on the Run (emphasis mine):
You know, I said, are you a workaholic? And what he said to me is, well, you don’t work music, you play it. So I think I’m a playaholic.
- “Maybe the thing I’m most fascinated by about Paul McCartney is his insistence that he doesn’t really know where the music comes from.”
If you don’t know what to expect, there’s a chance the listener and reader will find themselves in a place they wouldn’t expect to end up, that’s where interesting art resides.
- “Another thing I admire is that McCartney doesn’t torture himself too much with his songwriting process.”
McCartney places great emphasis on starting and finishing work immediately, before you have had the chance to overanalyse or come up with an excuse not to do it.
(ain’t that last point the truth :D )