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With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
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Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
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Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.
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Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
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I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings