Paul McCartney Quotes
I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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Being 16 years old and getting an electric guitar is never going to get old. There's always going to be kids making music. There's always going to be kids in bands.
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When all your stuff gets smashed, everybody gives you new stuff. And when you've been playing the same guitar since you were like 12, that's a lot like dancing with somebody else's wife.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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I feel sorry for these kids in bands. Everything is so disposable nowadays. These kids don't even get 15 minutes of fame, it's like a minute and a half.
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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Fame and stardom sat very easily on Elizabeth Taylor's shoulders.
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My mom always told me I should have a Plan B. I said that if I'm not going to play guitar I'm going to play drums. And if I'm not going to play drums, I'm going to play bass. I always just wanted to play music. I was completely obsessed.
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The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
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I was always falling in love at a very young age - kindergarten is when I can remember. There was always a crush. And when I was in sixth grade, I started picking up guitar, so I started wanting to write about it and sing about it.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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Once in a while, the thumb that fits over the neck of the guitar kinda bothers me a little bit, but not that much yet. I figure in time I won't do much because of my age.
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Fame hasn't really affected me. I have a really close knit group around me, and my sister is always with me, so it's like a bit of a travelling circus.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
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Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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Central bankers got it right in the United States in 1987 when they avoided deflationary pressures as well as serious trouble in the banking system.
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The trouble with America is that there are far too many wide open spaces surrounded by teeth.
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Thus hath it been sent down from the heaven of the Will of your Lord, the Lord of Revelation.
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Playing acoustic guitar is like having sex with your clothes on. I mean you know how to do it, but it’s more difficult.
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I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.
