But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSadness 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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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 You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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Lyricists play with words.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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Think globally, act locally.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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 doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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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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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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