Paul McCartney Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
-- Paul McCartneySource : Song: Golden Slumbers
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“My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.”
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“There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.”
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“It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.”
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“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.”
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“I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.”
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“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.”
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“I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.”
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“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
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“I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.”
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“I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.”
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“I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.”
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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.”
-- Paul McCartneySource : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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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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“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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“It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.”
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“I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.”
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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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“...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.”
-- Paul McCartneySource : Song: We Can Work It Out
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“In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.”
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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.”
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“As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.”
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“I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.”
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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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“Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'”
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“Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.”
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“You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.”
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“Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.”
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“It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.”
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“Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.”
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