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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.

Paul McCartney

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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Adventure Drink Whistle
I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Believe Better Love Message Myself Need
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Known Myself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Approve Myself Time Writing
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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Death Happiness Jump Sadness Tears
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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Natural Quite Weird Yourself
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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Formal Ideas Improvisation Kind Music Myself Writing
To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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Dance Thinking Yourself
When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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Alert Awake Day Greatness Wide Yourself
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Past
But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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Color Important Sadness Writing Wrong
I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Meditation Myself Need People Result Thinking
What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Emotional Wrong Yourself
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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Pool Resource Writing Yourself
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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Black Hall Kind Music Oneself
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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Boredom Children Excitement Live Start Thinking
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Music Myself Thinking
I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Improvement Myself Time
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.
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Allow Artist Opinion People Yourself
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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Life Moon Yourself
When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Animal Eat Friendship Myself Vegan
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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Instrument Myself Practice Singer
I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Eat Enough Retirement Time Yourself
If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Eat Myself Planet Stop
I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Awareness Believe Cure Future Meditation Modern Problem Society
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.’
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Enough Greatness Myself Writing
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Creation Hands Myself People Simplicity Thinking

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.

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