Paul McCartney Quotes
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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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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You guys ready to do this?
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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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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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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 just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.
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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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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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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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Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
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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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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.
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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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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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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.