Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us
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I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.
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The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!
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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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The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.
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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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And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.
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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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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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So, if I'm cooking, I'll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.
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There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.
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I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.
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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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I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.
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Will you still need me, will you still feed me,when I'm sixty-four?
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It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.
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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.
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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.
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You guys ready to do this?
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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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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!
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If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].