Paul McCartney Quotes
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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.
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When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
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The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.
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It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
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George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
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I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.
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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.
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Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.
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Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.
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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.
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She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.
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Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
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Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.
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Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.
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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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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.