Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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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
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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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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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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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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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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You guys ready to do this?
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.
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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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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.