If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAnd when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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?
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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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.
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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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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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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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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.
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