Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
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I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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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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I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.
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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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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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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.