Paul McCartney Quotes
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I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.
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We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
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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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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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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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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
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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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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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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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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 just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.
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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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You guys ready to do this?
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.