One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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 am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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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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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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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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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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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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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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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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