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 MCCARTNEYI am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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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Lyricists play with words.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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