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 MCCARTNEYNone of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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One 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.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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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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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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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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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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