Paul McCartney Quotes
- All Quotes
-
And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
-
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.
-
No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
-
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.
-
My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
-
I go back so far I'm in front of me.
-
She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
-
When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!
-
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
-
I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.
-
I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.
-
Obladi oblada life goes on bra Lala how the life goes on
-
My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.
-
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.
-
I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
-
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
-
That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.
-
People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.
-
We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.
-
My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.
-
I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
-
We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
-
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!
-
The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.