I don’t work at being ordinary.
PAUL MCCARTNEYOne 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.
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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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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It’s like if you’re an astronaut and you’ve been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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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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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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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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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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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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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