Paul McCartney Quotes
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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.
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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
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I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.
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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 didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.
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The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.
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We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.
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Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.
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Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
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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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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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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
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I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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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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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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.