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Paul McCartney, born on June 18, 1942, is a renowned musician, singer, and songwriter from Liverpool, England. He is a founding member of The Beatles, a band that had a profound impact on popular music. McCartney is known for his unique musical talent, versatile performance skills, and prolific songwriting.

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“Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...”

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“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.”

Knows Mines Birth Cost Certificates Birth Certificate Stepmothers

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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 me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.”

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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 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.”

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

Thinking Knows Mad Retiring

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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 enough.'”

Thinking Knows Writing Wells Stills Enough Song Good Enough

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

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“If I were dead, I would be the last to know.”

Ifs Knows Would Be Lasts Unconcerned

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

Knows Made Mountain Made It Cowboy

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“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.”

Knows Firsts Know How Impossible First Time Workers Unemployed Scrap

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“I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.”

Knows Writing Song Know How Breathe Hey

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“It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.”

Knows Serious Good Poetry

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“My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.”

Knows Said Records Majors Sitting Producers Labels These Days Dinosaurs Discussing Sitting Around Record Labels Asteroids Itunes

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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 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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“I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.”

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“But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.”

Knows Kids Vegetarian Wimps

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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.”

Knows Wells Enough

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“I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.”

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“When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.”

Knows Firsts Wells Kids Used Dies Deals Havens Messages Okay Died

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“For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.”

Knows World Littles Play Fool

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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 smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.”

“I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.”

Knows Love Inspirational Needs Believe Stills Love Is Messages I Still Believe Love Is All You Need

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“All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.”

Knows Wells Philosophy Together Realizing Sky Right Thing

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Born: June 18, 1942
Known for: Musician
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