Paul McCartney and Wings Quotes
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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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By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.
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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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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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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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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
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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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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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Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
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It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
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Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.
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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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Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.
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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 doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
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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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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 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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Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise
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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.
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Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
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I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.
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I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.