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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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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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
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I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
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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 mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.
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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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.
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All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
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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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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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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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And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.
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If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
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It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.
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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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Fight for the right to live in freedom!
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To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.
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One may not eat what has a face.
Paul McCartney The Beatles