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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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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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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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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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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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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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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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