Quotes About Paul Mccartney

#1. 'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side.

George Benson

#2. I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years.

Tracey Ullman

#3. Of course, Paul McCartney's sound is different from mine, but it's the way you hear things, really.

Chris Squire

#4. It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

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#5. 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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#6. I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

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#7. And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

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#8. Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

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#9. Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

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#10. I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

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#11. The Beatles gave me everything. Especially Paul McCartney. I adore him.

Ozzy Osbourne

#12. If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

Paul McCartney

#13. 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.

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#14. I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

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#15. The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney.

Robert Gottlieb

#16. My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.

Paul McCartney

#17. My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

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#18. Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time ...

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#19. Lyricists play with words.

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#20. I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

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#21. I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge.

Ringo Starr

#22. The statement by Paul McCartney that, although he was a pacifist, he couldn't be at this time of war. Which is as daft as being a vegetarian between meals.

Mark Steel

#23. I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

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#24. If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

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#25. I'm the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.

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#26. If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

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#27. I'm not a fan of musicals at all, but I do think 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' is a very good. I always thought 'Walk the Line' was very good, too. I was in 'Nowhere Boy.' I played Paul McCartney. That was kind of musical - we did songs in that.

Thomas Sangster

#28. 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.

Paul McCartney

#29. Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.

Linda McCartney

#30. I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

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#31. I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

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#32. I would have loved to record with Paul McCartney on some of his early solo recordings, wonderful music. Playing some lovely organ, perhaps. I would have loved to record with John Lennon. He was a dear friend. I had lunch with him just two days before he died.

Rick Wakeman

#33. Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

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#34. I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

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#35. There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that ... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

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#36. Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

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#37. I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

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#38. If it was up to me, I'd get more oil tanker drivers drunk. I don't value music much. I like the Beatles, but I hate Paul McCartney. I like Led Zeppelin, but I hate Robert Plant. I like the Who, but I hate Roger Daltrey.

Kurt Cobain

#39. Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

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#40. The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

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#41. According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost!

Ernie J Zelinski

#42. This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

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#43. I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

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#44. With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.

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#45. 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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#46. I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

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#47. The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

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#48. 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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#49. George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

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#50. So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

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#51. He likes to think he's Paul McCartney. But Paul McCartney is a gentle soul. And a monogamist.

Rainbow Rowell

#52. I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

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#53. There's nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

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#54. Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

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#55. I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

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#56. People say the Beatles were John Lennon. What is Paul McCartney? Chopped liver? But everyone has their own favourite members whose creativity they gravitate to. That's normal.

Mike Love

#57. I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

Paul McCartney

#58. We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now.

Linda McCartney

#59. We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

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#60. If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.

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#61. George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

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#62. I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in ... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.

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#63. Paul McCartney, the ex-Beatle Brady's mom used to call Old Spaniel Eyes, is getting a medal at the White House. Why is it, Brady sometimes wonders, that people with only a little talent get so much of everything? It's just another proof that the world is crazy.

Stephen King

#64. Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

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#65. When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

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#66. Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

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#67. I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."

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#68. Paul McCartney, one of the best songwriters of all time, has only produced manure for the past 25 years.

Noel Gallagher

#69. If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

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#70. Think globally, act locally.

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#71. It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

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#72. Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

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#73. The beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

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#74. Paul McCartney had a baby when he was 61; Rod Stewart was 66; Rupert Murdoch was a stunning 72. Not only does that mean they'll have less stamina than the average dad, that means they'll, well, check out a lot sooner too.

Jeffrey Kluger

#75. 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.

Paul McCartney

#76. I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

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#77. In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

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#78. I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.

Tom Felton

#79. It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

Paul McCartney

#80. Every love song I write is for Linda.

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#81. Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.

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#82. I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

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#83. When I worked for Entertainment Tonight I got to emcee Paul McCartney's press conference.

Nina Blackwood

#84. I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about ...

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#85. 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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#86. 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.

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#87. When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

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#88. 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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#89. I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

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#90. I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

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#91. A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

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#92. I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.

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#93. You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

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#94. 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.

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#95. My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

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#96. The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

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#97. My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

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#98. It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

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#99. When we were kids we always used to say, 'Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.'
When John died, I thought, 'Well, maybe we'll get a message,' because I know he knew the deal. I haven't had a message from John.

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#100. 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!.

Paul McCartney