Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
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Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!
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I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.
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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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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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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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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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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Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
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Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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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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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.
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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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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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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.