Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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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'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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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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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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If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian.
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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 doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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 guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
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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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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.
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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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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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I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
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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 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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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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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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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 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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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.