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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Paul McCartney

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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Accomplishment Award Better Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Criticism Myself Open Performance Time Writing
I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Goodness Legend Man Music Myself People Play Thinking
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adult Grow Up Interesting Kind Music Symbol
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Instrument Myself Practice Singer
I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Feeling Myself Planning Writing
When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Boredom Children Excitement Live Start Thinking
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Herself Mom See Work
My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Arrest Known Myself Prison Sing
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Natural Quite Weird Yourself
I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Drugs Realize
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Enough Herself Remember Weird
My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Ideas Message Myself Peace
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Nature Pleasure Realize
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

End Kind Life Myself Time

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