Paul McCartney Quotes
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
Quotes to Explore
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
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I want every Grammy.
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I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.
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I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.
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I love writing songs.
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I wrote my first song when I was six or seven, a silly little song. But I used to write poems in high school - not songs.
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Hard writing makes easy reading.
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What I didn't want to do is get into a ratings race with television because really, for them, it matters. For me, it doesn't.
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Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.
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Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.
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I think I was just lucky to be brought up in a very musical family. My two older brothers were, and still are, very musical and very creative, and music was a big part of my life from a very young age, so it is quite natural for me to become involved in music in the way that I did.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Does art have a future? Performance genres like opera, theater, music and dance are thriving all over the world, but the visual arts have been in slow decline for nearly 40 years. No major figure of profound influence has emerged in painting or sculpture since the waning of Pop Art and the birth of Minimalism in the early 1970s.
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I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.
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If you play Mark Twain and he's not funny, you are definitely not playing Mark Twain. That was the biggest challenge, in some ways. Writing and performing jokes that can come out of that brilliant delivery system he constructed: the friendly, avuncular truth-teller.
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I started to travel like this at the age of 15 so for me, it's normal. Some days you get tired and you feel, 'I want to stay at home a little bit more,' but it's only the moment.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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The fact that you can love something that's lost is all of the incentive that you'll ever need to love again as opposed to becoming comfortably numb.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
