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"50 Paul McCartney Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 18 June 1942 | Musician | Record producer | Film producer |
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Everyone Glass Had Slaughterhouses
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
End Equal Love Make
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

About Certainly Come Dad
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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.

Boring Exciting Getting Going
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We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Account Army Beatles Bells
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

About Anyway Beatles Four
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Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

Beatle Either End He
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

Come Go Me More
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Lyricists play with words.
Play Words Lyricist
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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

Did Effort Him Honorable
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

Beatle Began Generation Kids
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

Actually Create Does Down
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

Ever Job Just Meryl
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

After Anyway Death Enough
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I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

About Any Because Five
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

Audition Got Group Knew
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

Cuz Did Had Just
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

About Anything Days Feel
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I don't work at being ordinary.
Being Ordinary Work
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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

Comment Ever Make Serious
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I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Beatles Deal Hate Press
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George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
Arrangement George Good He
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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.

Beatles Cocky Done End
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Think globally, act locally.
Act Globally Locally Think
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Love is all you need.
Love Need You
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

Get Giggles Me Mind
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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

Admit Better Getting Got
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

Buy Junk Says Shop
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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.

Always Back Bass Fat
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

Beat Elvis Got Heard
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I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

Anyone Anything Call Doing
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The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

Been Death Exaggerated Greatly
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I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

Religious Spiritual Very
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

Home Out Playing Rather
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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

Cooking Kind Making Nice
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

Kid Know Thought Vegetarian
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Also Backward Because Look
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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Courteous Dad Guy Kind
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
Color Important Melancholy Nothing
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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

Go Kind Lightly Liverpool
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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.

Allowed Always Artist Coincide
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
Always Loved Putting Songs
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

Get Just Like People
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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.

Because Died District Her
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

How Instrument Practiced Singer
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

Bless Dad Had Him
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Ability Fats His Humor
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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
Always Back Dad Looking
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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

Always Appreciate Bad Could
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
Down Everyone Line Must
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Paul McCartney Quotes & Sayings