Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."
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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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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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Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
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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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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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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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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better.
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People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
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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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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.
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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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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
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I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.