I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSomewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them 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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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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The thing you must remember is that I’m the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn’t noticed the change, I’d been having such a ball!
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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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 children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
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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.
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When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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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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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
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