Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I’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.
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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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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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 feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.
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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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