If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEYYou 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.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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I don’t work at being ordinary.
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I’m still looking to write a great song. You always are. You know, you never think, ‘Well, that’s enough that’s good enough.’
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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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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 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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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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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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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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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 love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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