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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBuy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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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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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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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 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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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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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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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