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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.

Paul McCartney

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Music Myself Thinking
I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Believe Better Love Message Myself Need
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Accomplishment Award Better Yourself
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 MCCARTNEY

Death Happiness Jump Sadness Tears
But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Children Food Myself Yourself
There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Song Thinking Writing
Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Love Myself Song Togetherness Trick Work
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Myself Noise Song
My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Ideas Message Myself Peace
Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Karma Line Pay
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Allow Artist Opinion People Yourself
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fly Inspirational Learning Wings
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Heart Kind People Structure
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Choir Face Humanity Love Music Myself Optimistic Reality Team Work
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Aware Care Oneself Ourselves Planet Space
Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Feeling Greatness Myself Record Time
If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Death Known Myself
I’m only 49 years old. I’m still in the middle of this whole thing. I don’t feel like it’s finished at all. I’m still planning to write better songs.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Better Feeling Myself Planning Writing
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Existence Moments Myself Sex Song
I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

One Liner Religious Spiritual
We can work it out. Life is very short, and there’s no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Fight Friendship Life Myself Time Work
The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Greatness Musician
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 MCCARTNEY

Approve Myself Time Writing
Be cool and you’ll be alright. That’s rock & roll religion.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Cool Music Religion Yourself
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Artist Brilliant Lyrics Memories Writing Yourself
I don’t work at being ordinary.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Inspirational Myself One Liner Ordinary Self Love Work
Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
PAUL MCCARTNEY

Audience Fun Quite

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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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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