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.
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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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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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.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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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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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 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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