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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
Paul McCartney
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Paul McCartney
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
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Bass Guitarist
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Film Producer
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City of Liverpool
Sir Paul McCartney
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James Paul McCartney
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When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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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 didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
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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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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
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I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
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I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
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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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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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 saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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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.
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
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Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.
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