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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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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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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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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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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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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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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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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.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Anyone who cares about the Earth - really cares - must stop eating animals.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
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.'
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings