I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBut you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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.
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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.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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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.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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To 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!.
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