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Paul Mccartney Inspirational Quotes (168)

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Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
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There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
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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'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
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Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
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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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I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
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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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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
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All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.
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But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.
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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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I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.
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In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
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There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
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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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When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.
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Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
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