Paul McCartney Quotes
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I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.