Paul McCartney Quotes
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I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.
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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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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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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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Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
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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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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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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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Fight for the right to live in freedom!
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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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And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?
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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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It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.
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It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.
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I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
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Every love song I write is for Linda.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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One may not eat what has a face.
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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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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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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!.