It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSadness 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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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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Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don’t stop. There has to be something else. I think it’s the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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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.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than 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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