Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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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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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 still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
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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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Think globally, act locally.
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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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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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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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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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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”
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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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Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
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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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I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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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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For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
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I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
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It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?