Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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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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I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
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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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We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around
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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 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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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
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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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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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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.
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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're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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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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Think globally, act locally.
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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.