Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that’s in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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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 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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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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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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
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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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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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