Paul McCartney

Musician, Singer-songwriter

Paul McCartney is a legendary musician and songwriter, best known for his work with The Beatles and his influential solo career.

Born
June 18, 1942
Quotes
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Rank
#320

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"I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind."

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"Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun."

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"There will be an answer. Let it be."

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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 going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man."

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

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"The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!"

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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 think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!."

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"If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books."

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

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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 noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!"

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"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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"My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing."

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"When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade."

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

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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."

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"I don't ever try to make a serious social comment."

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"It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film."

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"Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement."

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