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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTranscendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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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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There’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
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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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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