Paul McCartney Quotes
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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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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When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
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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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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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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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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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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We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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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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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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I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
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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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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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Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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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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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.