Paul McCartney Quotes
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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
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This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.
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At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.
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What a fucking great band we were.
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I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'
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Lyricists play with words.
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I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.
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When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.
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Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.
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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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Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
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Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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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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It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.
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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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I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
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My so-called career is a haphazard thing.
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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
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In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.