Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies.
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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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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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.
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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
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I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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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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Every love song I write is for Linda.
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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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With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.
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I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.
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