Paul McCartney Quotes
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
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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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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
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Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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Think globally, act locally.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
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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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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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Obladi oblada life goes on bra Lala how the life goes on
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.