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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartney
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
Paul McCartney
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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.
Paul McCartney
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
Paul McCartney
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
Paul McCartney
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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.
Paul McCartney
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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.
Paul McCartney
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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.
Paul McCartney
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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.
Paul McCartney
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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Paul McCartney
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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.
Paul McCartney
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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.'
Paul McCartney
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
Paul McCartney
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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
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