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 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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With every year of playing, you want to relax one more muscle. Why? Because the more tense you are, the less you can hear.
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And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.
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What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant.
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Mubarak came to power as a hero who fought bravely in Egypt's wars and headed the nation's air force.
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Many people, companies, and organizations are trying to protect the past at any cost. We see this regularly in business as the incumbent vs. innovator fight, but I think it's more profound than that. It's literally a difference in point of view.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
