Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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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'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'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.
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If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
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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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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 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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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 always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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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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It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.
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If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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I wasn't really dead.