Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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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?
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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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Fight for the right to live in freedom!
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
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Every love song I write is for Linda.
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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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And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?
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I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.
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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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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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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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One may not eat what has a face.
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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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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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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!.