The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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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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Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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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.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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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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To get a big hit single you’ve got to go a bit dance. You’ve got to go a bit Britney. I don’t think I can do that – well, I could but it wouldn’t look very seemly!.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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Sadness isn’t sadness. It’s happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They’re balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It’s life that’s jumped off a tall cliff.
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