Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.
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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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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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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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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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John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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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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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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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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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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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 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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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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Think globally, act locally.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
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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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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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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.
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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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