Paul McCartney Quotes
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You guys ready to do this?
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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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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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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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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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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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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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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 anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
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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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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
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Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".
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We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around
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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 had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
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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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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.