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 MCCARTNEYIf I were dead, I would be the last to know.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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Think globally, act locally.
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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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 realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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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 just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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