Paul McCartney Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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The music comes through me, and I let it come the way it comes, and it shapes itself. I just hold space for it. I don't intend to write it for a purpose, but it comes as it comes and am proud of the way it can support change because I believe strongly in what I sing about.
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I'm a man of different types of flavors and tastes. I like listening to things that inspire me. Older music, when instruments were being played, not just people hitting buttons. It's manlier. You're touching things to make sounds appear.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!
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I like being 35, I like having a bit of money to spend on music and useless gadgets. The net is providing new ways to communicate and cooperate that just didn't exist in the 80s.
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One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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If I could never work again and I could just listen to music and walk, I'd be very, very happy.
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Music is what our feelings sound like.
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Shania Twain brought a whole other fan base to country music with her sound, the way the videos were produced.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
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Music is not a profession. Music is a way of life - one that requires much professionalism.
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Sometimes I feel like music has made love to me.
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My first ever tour of my music was in the Netherlands. I didn't really have a grace period to grow or anything; people just started booking for me. I feel pretty lucky.
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As the son of a Cuban refugee and cousin and nephew to many Cubans on the island, I cringe when Americans visit Cuba for a fun island vacation.
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Our job is to bring the dead facts to life.
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In order to be universal, you have to be rooted in your own culture.
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It's important for our state to expand manufacturing jobs.
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The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
