Paul McCartney Quotes
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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I look around me and I see it isn't so Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know 'Cause here I go again... I love you.
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.
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John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
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I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
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I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.
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Think globally, act locally.
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When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.