When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
PAUL MCCARTNEYPainting 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
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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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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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Think globally, act locally.
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