Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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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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Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.
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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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Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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I go back so far I'm in front of me.
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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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All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
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Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.
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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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John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
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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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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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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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People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.
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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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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 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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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard that - Bruce Springsteen was this real street boy, now he's got this big house. How does that compute? If you don't look at the material side of someone's life, if you look at more the emotional side, there's always a wealth of stuff to write about.
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When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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Oppression won't win, the light comes from within.
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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.