Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
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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.
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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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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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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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When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
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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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If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
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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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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 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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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
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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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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
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I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.