Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less
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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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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 don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
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When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
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Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
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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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One of things about beards is that, when men reach a certain age, they'd like to see if they can grow one. It's a phenomenon I understand very well. After you get over the itchy face, you go, "Oh, I don't have to shave, that's cool." And then you move into the philosophical thing- people say, "You look weird, you have a beard." And you say, "No, actually, it's weird to shave." Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
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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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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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We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.
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Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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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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You guys ready to do this?
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Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.