Paul McCartney Quotes
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.
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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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Think globally, act locally.
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...
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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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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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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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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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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.