Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 9

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• I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

  Paul McCartney

  Firsts, Impossible, Unemployed

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• It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

  Paul McCartney

  Kids, Laughing, Died

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• I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

  Paul McCartney

  Piano, Singing, Gears

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• When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

  Paul McCartney

  Music, Humble, Singers

  "Steve Martin - a man with two reigns" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. May 26, 2011.

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• This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

  Paul McCartney

  Firsts, Auditions, First Time

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• And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.

  Paul McCartney

  Suffragettes, Jet, Majors

  Song: Venus And Mars Rock Show Jet

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• I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

  Paul McCartney

  Village, Lennon, Mets

  "Roof climbing with Paul McCartney - a classic interview from the archives". Interview with Alan Smith, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Every love song I write is for Linda.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing

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• One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

  Paul McCartney

  Moving, Philosophical, Men

  "Paul McCartney" by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

  Paul McCartney

  Hate, Deals, Presses

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• I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

  Paul McCartney

  Men, Thinking, Games

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• I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Mad, Retiring

  "Paul McCartney: 'This isn't the last tour'". www.cnn.com. May 29, 2003.

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• I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Thinking, Appreciate

  "Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 29, 2012.

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• Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

  Paul McCartney

  Dream, Home, Sadness

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• There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

  Paul McCartney

  Promise, Malfunction, Wardrobe

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• Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

  Paul McCartney

  Sweet, Alcohol, Drug

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• Fight for the right to live in freedom!

  Paul McCartney

  Fighting

  Song: Freedom, 2001

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• It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.

  Paul McCartney

  People, Riding, Doe

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• All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.

  Paul McCartney

  Done, London, Can Do

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• There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.

  Paul McCartney

  Nfl, Super Bowl, Bigger

  "Super Bowl plays safe with Macca" by Owen Gibson, www.theguardian.com. November 22, 2004.

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• Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Baby, Rock And Roll

  Song: Pipes Of Peace

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• As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

  Paul McCartney

  Art, Modern, Concerned

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

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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.

  Paul McCartney

  Teenage, School, Years

  "Sir Paul McCartney". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. May 21, 2007.

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• In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

  Paul McCartney

  Eight, Play, Bangs

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• If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

  Paul McCartney

  Philosophy, Giving, World

  Song: Live and Let Die

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