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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I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.
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Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
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In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
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I almost envy people who say whatever they want.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
