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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
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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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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
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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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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 you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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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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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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Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
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