When 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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 had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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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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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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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