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 MCCARTNEYWhen I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
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If children are studying the 20th century, I’m in their text books.
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Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.
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But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.
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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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