Paul McCartney Quotes
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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Think globally, act locally.
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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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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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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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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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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.
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For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
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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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I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
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I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.
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I wasn't really dead.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.
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I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.
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I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.