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 MCCARTNEYLook, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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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’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be.
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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 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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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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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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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It’s when you’re in jail you really become a criminal.
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It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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