Paul McCartney Quotes

• I don’t work at being ordinary.

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• I don’t take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don’t mind.

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• I don’t ever try to make a serious social comment.

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• 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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• I can’t deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

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• I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn’t a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

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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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• George Martin, he’s very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

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• Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

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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.

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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.

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• When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you’re mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

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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.

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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.

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• To keep the record straight, it wasn’t always John and Yoko. We’ve all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There’s a lot of money involved.

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• Think globally, act locally.

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• There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

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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.

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• Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’

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• Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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Paul McCartney (89)

Birth:	18th June, 1942
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Composer, Lyricist, Musician, Singer

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