Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him
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I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'
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I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.
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I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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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.
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None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
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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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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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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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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.
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I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.
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I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.
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John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
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And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.