Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.
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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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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'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.
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I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.
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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 wasn't really dead.
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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
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The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.
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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.
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I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.
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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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People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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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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Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
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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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It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.
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We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.
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Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.
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And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?