I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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 live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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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.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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Lyricists play with words.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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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!.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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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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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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.
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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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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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