I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
PAUL MCCARTNEYEvery time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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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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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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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