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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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.
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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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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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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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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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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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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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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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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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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
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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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Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
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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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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
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You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
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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."