Paul McCartney Quotes
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If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.
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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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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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My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.
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If I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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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 am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.
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I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.
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I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
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You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.
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Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
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You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.