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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There is good and bad in everyone.
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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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Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
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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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We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either.
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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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Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
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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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When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.
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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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Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group.
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It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.
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I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
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I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.
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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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As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.
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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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It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.
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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.
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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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Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.
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I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention.