Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.
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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.
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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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Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.
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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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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.
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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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You guys ready to do this?
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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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 used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.