Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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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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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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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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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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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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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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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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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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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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Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
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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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Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
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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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Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
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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.
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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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We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.