Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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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 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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I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.
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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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It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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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... .
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Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.
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There is good and bad in everyone.
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To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.
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Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
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I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.
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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 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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When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.
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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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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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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be vegetarian. We feel better about ourselves and better about the animals, knowing we're not contributing to their pain.
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That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.
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The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
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We stopped eating meat many years ago. During the course of a Sunday lunch we happened to look out of the kitchen window at our young lambs playing happily in the fields. Glancing down at our plates, we suddenly realized that we were eating the leg of an animal who had until recently been playing in a field herself. We looked at each other and said, "Wait a minute, we love these sheep-they're such gentle creatures. So why are we eating them?" It was the last time we ever did.