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 MCCARTNEYIt’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?
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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.
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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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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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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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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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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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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.
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