Paul McCartney Quotes
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
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I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
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In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
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My so-called career is a haphazard thing.
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All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.
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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
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And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?
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Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
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The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.
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I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.
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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
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Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
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Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.
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George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
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I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.