When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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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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Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.
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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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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 think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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 love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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