Paul McCartney Quotes
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When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.
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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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It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
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If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
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I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.
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I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.
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I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.
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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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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
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I don't work at being ordinary.
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If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.
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Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.
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I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
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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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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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.
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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.