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 MCCARTNEYTrumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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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 doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Lyricists play with words.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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