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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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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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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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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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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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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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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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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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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So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."
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Think globally, act locally.
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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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It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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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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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...
Paul McCartney The Beatles