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 MCCARTNEYBe cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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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’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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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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When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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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