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 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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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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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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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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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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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