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 MCCARTNEYIf slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it’s all you’ve got, unless you’re brilliant and can write totally in the now.
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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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I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.
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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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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.
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My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
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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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There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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