Paul McCartney Quotes

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

Paul McCartney The Beatles

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• Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
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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.

  

  RaeLynn
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• We want to encourage people to talk to one another.

  

  Kate Middleton
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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.

  

  Olly Murs
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• I want every Grammy.

  

  Young Thug
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• I'm not trying to be Mr. Universe, but I want to stay in shape.

  

  Calvin Klein
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• I'm the artist when I'm doing music that I am when I'm acting. I'm everything.

  

  Eddie Murphy
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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.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • School
  • High
  • Song

• Hard writing makes easy reading.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Writing
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  • Easy

• 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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Want
  • Me
  • Television

• 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.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Music
  • Money
  • True

• Well, every time I get ready to do a job I want to lose weight.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Time
  • Job
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Up
  • Music

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
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• I want to be the number one songwriter-producer guy of all time.

  

  Calvin Harris
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• It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.

  

  Orlando Gibbons
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  • Universe
  • Everything

• I like to add props to render the specificities of place - paintings, food, clothing, signs, infrastructure, music, sayings and slang particular to the region and particular to the character. And props shouldn't just sit there; they should get used.

  

  Kaui Hart Hemmings
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  • Character
  • Food

• The reason I play music is to touch people - for selfish reasons, as well. It feels good to make someone else feel something, whether it's a kiss, a painting, good idea or it's a song.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • People
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• I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Social
  • Objectives

• You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.

  

  Earl Stevens
  • Ifs
  • Known
  • Rapper

• I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.'

  

  David Sedaris

• What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Want