Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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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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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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 realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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