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 MCCARTNEYI 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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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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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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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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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Think globally, act locally.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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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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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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