I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWe got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
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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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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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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.
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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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I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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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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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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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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