Paul McCartney Quotes
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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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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Think globally, act locally.
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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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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.
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It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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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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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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 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 saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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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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If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
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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 think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.
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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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There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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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?
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If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.
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I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.