Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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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 don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.
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You guys ready to do this?
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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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Obladi oblada life goes on bra Lala how the life goes on
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The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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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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My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.
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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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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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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.
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I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.
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That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
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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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I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
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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.