Paul McCartney Quotes
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
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At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
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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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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
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In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved 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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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.
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Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces
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I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
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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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To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.
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We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
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What a fucking great band we were.
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Lyricists play with words.
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I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
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When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.
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I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.
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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.