Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.
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Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.
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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.
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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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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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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 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 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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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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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.
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I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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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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My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.
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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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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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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.
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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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.