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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI don’t work at being ordinary.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.
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I think the French girls are fabulous.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
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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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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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Think globally, act locally.
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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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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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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It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that’s why I can’t eat it. Simple as that.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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