Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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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'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.
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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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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 still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
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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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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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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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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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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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Fight for the right to live in freedom!
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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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I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
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Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.