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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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 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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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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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through. You can go into a trance while you’re doing it, so it’s a nice contrast to real life.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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