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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere will be an answer. Let it be.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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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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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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