I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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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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 realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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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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I can’t manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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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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