Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.
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I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes.
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I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
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I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.
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I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.
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I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.
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Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.
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We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?
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I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.
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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .