No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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 realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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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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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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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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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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