But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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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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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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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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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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