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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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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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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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