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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

Paul McCartney

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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Arrest Known Myself Prison Sing
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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Alive Death Myself Rumor
Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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Age Grow Up Myself
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
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Love Man Myself Wife
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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Goodness Limitation Love World
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
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Existence Moments Myself Sex Song
It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Call Gift Time Yourself
We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fight Friendship Life Myself Time Work
The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Greatness Musician
What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Emotional Wrong Yourself
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Past
When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Approve Myself Time Writing
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Future Myself Past

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