Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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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 we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.
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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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There’s the feeling, and the right reading - that’s all you really need to know; the right light and the feeling.
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I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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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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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
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If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.
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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.
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John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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Think globally, act locally.
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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.
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The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.
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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?