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 MCCARTNEYI doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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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 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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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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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’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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.
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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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