By the time we made “Abbey Road”, John and I were openly critical of each other’s music, and I felt John wasn’t much interested in performing anything he hadn’t written himself.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThink globally, act locally.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
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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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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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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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.
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Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
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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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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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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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