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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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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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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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