Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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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’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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One may not eat what has a face.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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