What has Paul said?

"I think by 1968 we were all a bit exhausted, spiritually... There was a feeling of: 'Yeah, well, it's great to be famous, it's great to be rich-but what's it all for?'"

--Paul

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"It was a mistake because we thought people would understand it was a 'magical' and a 'mystery tour'.  We thought the title was explanation enough.  There was no plot and it was formless, deliberately so.  We enjoy fantasy and were trying to create this.  The trouble is if people don't understand, they say 'A load of rubbish' and switch off.  Our problem is that we are prisoners of our own fame.  We could put on a moptop show, but we don't really like that sort of entertainment anymore.  And ...
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"It was my idea to say to the guys, 'Hey, how about disguising ourselves and getting an alter ego, because we're the Beatles and we're fed up?  Every time you write a song, John, you gotta sing it like John would.  Every time I approach a ballad, it's gotta be like Paul would.'  And it freed us.  It was a very liberating thing to do."

--Paul

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"Our stage act hasn't improved one bit since we started touring four years ago.  The days when three guitarists and a drummer can stand up and sing and do nothing else onstage are over.  Many of our tracks these days have big backings.  We couldn't produce the sound onstage without an orchestra.  We feel that people only really listen to us through our recordings, so that is our most important form of communication now."

--Paul

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"It's a lot of rubbish."

--Paul

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"Politics?  I'm not apathetic but I didn't like history at school and it's the same with politics."

--Paul

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