Paul McCartney quotes - page 5

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds. (Paul McCartney)
My so-called career is a haphazard thing.
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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.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
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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.
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It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
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I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.
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To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly.
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She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles. (Paul McCartney)
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
Paul McCartney
So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full-length animation film.
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD. It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school. Lucy was a kid in his school.
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We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
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I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to. (Paul McCartney)
I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.
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I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
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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.
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