I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhat’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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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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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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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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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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.
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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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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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Think globally, act locally.
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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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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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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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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 will be an answer. Let it be.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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