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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf you love your life, everybody will love you too.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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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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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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 realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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.
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