Paul McCartney Quotes

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

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• I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Success
  • Hate

• The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Art
  • Pretty
  • Looks

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Work
  • Coffee
  • Break

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Time
  • Done
  • Play

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Great
  • Live
  • Team

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Space
  • Environment
  • Care

• I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Moon
  • Lonely

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Rational

• I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Instruments
  • Singers

• Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Remember
  • Funny
  • Faces

• Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Sometimes
  • Minutes
  • Adages

• 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.'

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • People
  • Life
  • Guy

• What a fucking great band we were.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Great
  • Band

• Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Rock
  • Cool
  • Rocks

• Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Life
  • Cold
  • Wind

• Lyricists play with words.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Words
  • Play
  • Lyricists

• I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Study
  • Literature
  • Fame

• There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Future
  • Vision
  • Sky

• 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'.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Interesting
  • Dad
  • Moments

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Experience
  • Kind
  • Cool

• 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.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Music
  • Heard
  • Beats

• To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Life
  • Hand

• When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Two