Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 2

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• There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

  Paul McCartney

  Rain, Future, Land

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• I think globally and act locally.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking

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• Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

  Paul McCartney

  Rocks, Being Cool, Alright

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• Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

  Paul McCartney

  Couple, Thrill, Add

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

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• I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

  Paul McCartney

  Pleasure, I Realized, Mines

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

  Paul McCartney

  Heart, Way, Break

  Song: Little Willow, Album: Flaming Pie, 1997

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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.

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, Music, Song

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• Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.

  Paul McCartney

  Real, Nice, Ideas

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• I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

  Paul McCartney

  Drug, Aspirin, Realizing

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• When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

  Paul McCartney

  Music, Book, Heart

  Song: Live And Let Die

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• One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.

  Paul McCartney

  Beautiful, Memories, Suits Of Armor

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• There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

  Paul McCartney

  Records, Stores, Glamorous

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• We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

  Paul McCartney

  Girl, Jobs

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• There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

  Paul McCartney

  People, Four, Great Beatles

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• A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

  Paul McCartney

  Track, Sound, Albums

  Source: www.wbur.org

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• I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people.
  But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right
  there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'

  Paul McCartney

  Jesus, Fantastic Life, People

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• Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

  Paul McCartney

  Please Me, Musical, Pieces

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• I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

  Paul McCartney

  Want, Enjoy, Ifs

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• I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

  Paul McCartney

  Writing, Simple, Thinking

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• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

  Paul McCartney

  Leader, Looks, Look Up

  Interview with Joan Goodman, Playboy Magazine (December 1984), later quoted in "The Beatles: Paperback Writer: 40 Years of Classic Writing" edited by Mike Evans, 2009.

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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.

  Paul McCartney

  Dream, Thinking, Needs

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• Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

  Paul McCartney

  Inspiring, Space, Environmental

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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!”

  Paul McCartney

  Men, People, Wish

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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.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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• To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

  Paul McCartney

  Ukulele, Play, Ems

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