I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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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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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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.
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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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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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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