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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.

Paul McCartney

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Doubt Music Myself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

End Kind Life Myself Time
I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Drugs Realize
But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Color Important Sadness Writing Wrong
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Boredom Children Excitement Live Start Thinking
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
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Song Thinking Writing
We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fight Friendship Life Myself Time Work
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 MCCARTNEY

Amazing Couple Follow Music Myself Similar Thrill Time
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Calm Meditation Myself
It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Pool Resource Writing Yourself
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Mindset Ourselves Play
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
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
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!.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Dance Thinking Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Crime Discrimination Myself Support Wrong

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