Paul McCartney Quotes
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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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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.
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If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 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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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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When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
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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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The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
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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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I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.
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It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.
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At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.
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One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
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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 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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Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...
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There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.