Paul McCartney Quotes
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.
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It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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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 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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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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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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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 definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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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 am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.