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Domesticity is the enemy of a...

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 happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

Paul McCartney 309 quotes

Ebony and ivory live together...

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

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It was a period when they use...

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

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There was one moment where th...

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'.

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I would have liked the Beatle...

I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.

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It's like a lot of kids; when...

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

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I lost my voice. I'd never ha...

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

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I am quite happy that the Bea...

I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

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I was impossible. I don't kno...

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

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One of things about beards is...

One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

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I don't know anything about t...

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

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Personal differences, musical...

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

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I do like Eddie Van Halen as ...

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

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All we ever got in those [ear...

All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.

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Sometimes you write a song in...

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

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My thing is about following t...

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

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My stepmother sold my birth c...

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

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Most people don't know that I...

Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.

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I'm actually doing what I wan...

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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People don't like land mines,...

People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.

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