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Thinking Quotes by Paul McCartney

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Paul McCartney talks about how home life can shift his mood and the way he writes music. He says he never feels finished, always chasing a new great song even after many hits. He also jokes that keeping a beard feels natural, while shaving seems odd.

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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

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

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I think globally and act locally.

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I think the French girls are fabulous.

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I hears that there's a group of South American Indians that worship the number zero

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The more I encourage my child to think for himself, the more he will care what I think

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It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them…

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I'm still looking to write a great song… You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good…

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

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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

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When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK,…

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I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that…

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I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I…

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Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is…

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There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all…

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I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you…

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I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was…

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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…

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I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out.…

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The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We…

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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage…

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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my…

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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…

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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…

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I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my…

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One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one.…

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I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He…

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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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When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think…

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It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use on-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could…

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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing…

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I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love…

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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

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My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the…

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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…

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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think…

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With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have…

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People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they…

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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't…

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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not…

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily…

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever.…

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

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies.

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

“Paul: 'After recording sessions, at two or three in the morning, we'd be careering through the villages on the way to Weybridge, shouting 'weyhey'…

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us