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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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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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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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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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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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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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