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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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 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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The morning is always my best time of the day for writing because that's when my head is best.
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I don't wear a lot of perfumey-perfumes because I think a lot of them smell like you're wearing perfume. And I don't want to smell like that.
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Coaches are bridge builders. It's our job to build a bridge for our athletes to cross over.
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I think the simpler it is when you have a crazy character to play is almost more creepy and interesting.
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The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
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If there were no ministers and no priests, how long would there be any churches?
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
