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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

Paul McCartney

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Himself Kind Lose Mom Strange
No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Accomplishment Award Better Yourself
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Home Myself Play Retirement
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
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
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Eyes I Miss You Kiss Love
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Instrument Myself Practice Singer
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fly Inspirational Learning Wings
It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Call Experience Learning Resource See Writing Yourself
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Past
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Herself Mom See Work
It’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?
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Life Moon Yourself
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
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Known Myself
You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Animal Character Himself Judgement Man
By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Criticism Myself Open Performance Time Writing

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