Paul McCartney Quotes
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.
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Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.
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I meet so many people that just sort of say, "I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me" or "It changed my life."
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I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.
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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.
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Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
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People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.
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That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.
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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
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Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".
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Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better.
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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.
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It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.
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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.