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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... .
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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.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
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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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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
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I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
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It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
There will be an answer. Let it be.
Paul McCartney The Beatles -
Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
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I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
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The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
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I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings