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Paul McCartney
English
Musician
Born:
Jun 18
,
1942
Beatles
Got
Me
People
Think
You
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I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.
Paul McCartney
Saying
People
Think
Weird
Doing
Were
Anyone
Anything
Realized
Used
Suddenly
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
Paul McCartney
Home
Sit
Thanks
Out
TV
Would
Rather
Retire
Why
Watch
Playing
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
Bass
Bass Player
Back
Our
Minds
Guy
He
None
Always
Wanted
Us
Who
Played
Player
Fat
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Paul McCartney
Death
Rumors
Exaggerated
Been
Greatly
Think globally, act locally.
Paul McCartney
Think
Locally
Globally
Act
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
Paul McCartney
Music
Me
Nothing
Pleases
Out
More
Come
Piece
Go
Than
Room
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
Me
Beatles
Somebody
Myth
Sit
Pool
Down
Swimming
Say
John
Write
Said
Were
Huge
Literally
Used
Swimming Pool
Now
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney
Buy
Says
Sign
Window
Yard
Junk
Shop
Shop Window
Why
Love is all you need.
Paul McCartney
Love
You
Love Is
Need
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney
Books
Studying
Text
Children
Century
Lyricists play with words.
Paul McCartney
Words
Play
I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
Paul McCartney
Noise
Song
Had
Like
Did
Just
Which
Cuz
Ridiculous
I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
Paul McCartney
Try
Make
Comment
Social
Serious
Ever
We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.
Paul McCartney
Savage
Gone
Believe
Immature
Kids
Vegetarian
Feel
Stereotypes
Beyond
Were
Lot
Anything
Pacifist
Little
Prejudiced
Liverpool
I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
Paul McCartney
Time
Better
Admit
Got
Getting
Getting Better
Little
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
Paul McCartney
Music
Me
Thought
Elvis
Hooked
Beat
Hotel
Got
Heard
Heartbreak
Really
Who
It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
Paul McCartney
Pool
Resources
Backward
Writers
Look
Also
Unusual
Because
Your
Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
Paul McCartney
Somewhere
Pay
Down
Everyone
Must
Line
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!
Paul McCartney
Buy
Myself
You
Yourself
Money
Car
Drive
First
Own
Think
Back
Find
My Own
Could
Thrown
Chauffeur
Had
No-One
Around
Spread
Get
Happier
Little
Mean
Things
Thinks
I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
Paul McCartney
Love
Generation
Song
Think
Second-Rate
Meet
Say
Kids
Would
Wings
Beatle
Stuff
Began
Younger
Really
Used
Who
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
Job
Saw
Meryl
Meryl Streep
Well
Said
Trying
Just
Want
Really
Ever
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
Paul McCartney
Death
Enough
John
Only
Never
Know
Well
Got
Get
After
Anyway
Really
Strangely
Her
Started
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
Paul McCartney
Good
Sweet
Martin
He
Sort
Arrangement
George
Very
Lush
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.
Paul McCartney
Life
Time
Beatles
My Life
First
Kind
Until
First Time
End
Done
Then
Really
Cocky
Sod
She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
Paul McCartney
Beatles
Queen
Remember
Will
Enough
One Of The Things
Remembered
Weirdly
She
Rock
Rock-N-Roll
Roll
Gonna
Reign
Her
Things
Elizabeth
Elizabeth I
I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
Paul McCartney
Met
John
John Lennon
Still
Lennon
Village
Liverpool
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