Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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You guys ready to do this?
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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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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Most people if I like their music, I can get good pictures.
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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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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.
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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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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like.
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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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The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.
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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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When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
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My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
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You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I look around me and I see it isn't so Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know 'Cause here I go again... I love you.
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I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.