Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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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.
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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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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
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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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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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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
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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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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
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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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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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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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The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.
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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less