To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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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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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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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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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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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 we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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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