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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.

Paul McCartney

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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Future Myself Past
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Happiness Jump Sadness Tears
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Allow Artist Opinion People Yourself
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Listening Music Myself People Way
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Call Myself People Thinking Weird
If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Children Future Myself Study
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Pieces Room
A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Adventure Drink Whistle
Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Audience Fun Quite
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Pool Resource Writing Yourself
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Heart Kind People Structure
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Children Growth Identity
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Guitar Instrument Myself Song Thrill
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Heart Live Young Yourself
Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Greatness Myself Record Time

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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