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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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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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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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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
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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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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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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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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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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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If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .