Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around
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I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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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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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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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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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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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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Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
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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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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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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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.
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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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I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.
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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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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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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.