Paul McCartney Quotes
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We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
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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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I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.
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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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My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.
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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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My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
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She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
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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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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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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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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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When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.
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Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.
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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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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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If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.
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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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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.