Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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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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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
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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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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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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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Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better.
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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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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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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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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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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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I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.
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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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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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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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You guys ready to do this?
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Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.