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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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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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Lyricists play with words.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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