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 just want to make a classic. Classic is the standard. I'm just trying to make music that will last a lifetime.
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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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If architecture is frozen music then music must be liquid architecture.
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The role of the musician is to go from concept to full execution. Put another way, it's to go from understanding the content of something to really learning how to communicate it and make sure it's well-received and lives in somebody else.
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It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.
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I was raised in the Baptist church... but I didn't really have a real committed experience with Christ until my father died.
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What's changed in New York, and what made us really change our thinking about New York, is that the different neighborhoods are becoming more important as shopping destinations than they used to be.
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I found once you start writing about God it's really fun. It's like a rock singer saying "baby." "Baby, baby, baaayy-by." You start saying "God" on the page and you don't want to stop.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
