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.
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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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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The 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.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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One may not eat what has a face.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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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 realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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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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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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