Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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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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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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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
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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.
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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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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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 think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.
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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'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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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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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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We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?
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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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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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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the 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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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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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.