Paul McCartney Quotes
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When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
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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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The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.
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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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Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.
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I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
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I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.
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I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
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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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Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces
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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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Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.
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Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.
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Lyricists play with words.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.