Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
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Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
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We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.
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Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.