Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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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 doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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Lyricists play with words.
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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.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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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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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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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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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.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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