Paul Mccartney Quotes

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds. ~ Paul McCartney

At least I knew that if someone broke in the alarm was so annoying that he would immediately leave. It's like how I feel when I walk into a store in December and that awful Paul McCartney song 'Wonderful Christmastime' is playing. Not worth it. I'm out of here even though I could have finished all my holiday shopping in one place. ~ Jen Kirkman

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books. ~ Paul McCartney

Everybody who I ever cared about has told me that they like my music: Bob Dylan, Paul McCartney, Al Green, The Spinners, Smokey Robinson. Everybody that matters. ~ Daryl Hall

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other. ~ Paul McCartney

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time ... ~ Paul McCartney

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him ~ Paul McCartney

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music. ~ Paul McCartney

With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together. ~ Paul McCartney

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me. ~ Paul McCartney

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you. ~ Paul McCartney

The owner of Spotify is worth something like 3 billion dollars ... he's richer than Paul McCartney and he's 30 and he's never written a song. ~ Patrick Carney

There will be an answer. Let it be. ~ Paul McCartney

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results. ~ Paul McCartney

Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head. ~ Paul McCartney

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human. ~ Paul McCartney

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song. ~ Paul McCartney

The cows in Stella Gibbons's immortal 'Cold Comfort Farm' are named Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless, and that more or less is the verdict on 'Ocean's Kingdom,' the wildly hyped and wildly uninteresting collaboration between Peter Martins and Paul McCartney. ~ Robert Gottlieb

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest. ~ Paul McCartney

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film. ~ Paul McCartney

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. ~ Paul McCartney

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle. ~ Paul McCartney

I grew up in the '70s, and I hear in my own stuff a lot of what I grew up listening to, which is to say I hear a lot of Billy Joel, Paul McCartney, Carole King, Joni Mitchell and Stevie Wonder. ~ Jason Robert Brown

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue". ~ Paul McCartney

I don't want to interview people. I want to have a conversation. I want to talk to Paul McCartney about the bass sound on 'The White Album.' ~ Nikki Sixx

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. ~ Paul McCartney

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty. ~ Paul McCartney

There's no way to play it cool when you meet Paul McCartney. You just start sweating, you trip over your words. Everyone kind of reverts back to being a 10-year-old girl. You can't help it. He's one of the only people on planet Earth that everyone knows who he is. Everyone. ~ Rob Huebel

Paul: 'After recording sessions, at two or three in the morning, we'd be careering through the villages on the way to Weybridge, shouting 'weyhey' and driving much too fast. George would perhaps be in his Ferrari - he was quite a fast driver - and John and I would be following in his big Rolls Royce or the Princess. John had a mike in the Rolls with a loudspeaker outside and he'd be shouting to George in the front: 'It is foolish to resist, it is foolish to resist! Pull over!' It was insane. All the lights would go on in the houses as we went past - it must have freaked everybody out.

When John went to make 'How I Won the War' in Spain, he took the same car, which he virtually lived in. It had blacked-out windows and you could never see who was in it, so it was perfect. John didn't come out of it - he just used to talk to the people outside through the microphone: 'Get away from the car! Get away! ~ Paul McCartney

There is good and bad in everyone. ~ Paul McCartney

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock. ~ Chris Cornell

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. ~ Paul McCartney

The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind. ~ Paul McCartney

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium. ~ Paul McCartney

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful. ~ Paul McCartney

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks. ~ Paul McCartney

It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of". ~ Gordon Lightfoot

Paul McCartney chit-chats with you, he makes eye contact with you, he seems really interested in what you're saying. He really puts everyone else at ease and makes them feel good so they're not nervous, which I think is really cool. ~ Rob Huebel

I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record. ~ Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney and The Beatles in general are my idols. And I love Sting. I got to meet Sting. That was really cool. Dustin Hoffman is my favorite actor. Also, I think of Magic Johnson as an idol. ~ Nat Wolff

I would really love to work with Paul McCartney. Isn't that arrogant? ~ Tina Weymouth

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording. ~ Paul McCartney

All we ever got in those [early] days was Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool. ~ Paul McCartney

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes. ~ Paul McCartney

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up. ~ Paul McCartney

It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone. ~ Paul McCartney

Love is all you need. ~ Paul McCartney

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas. ~ Paul McCartney

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back. ~ Paul McCartney

I worked with Paul McCartney for a while and saw what it does to you to be treated like a god for twenty years. ~ Tracey Ullman

The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty. ~ Paul McCartney

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem. ~ Paul McCartney

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. ~ Paul McCartney

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs ~ Paul McCartney

One story sums up their magical quality. On June 30th 1968, at the height of Apple optimism, Paul McCartney and Derek Taylor were driving back to London from Saltaire, Yorkshire, where they had been recording the Black Dyke Mills Band on a song of Paul's called 'Thingummybob'. They were in Bedfordshire. Let's pick a village on the map and pay it a visit, said Beatle Paul. He found a village called Harrold, which they found quite hilarious, and turned off the A5. Harrold turned out to be a picture-perfect village, with a picture-perfect pub at its heart. The pub was closed, but when the villagers saw there was a Beatle at the door they opened it up. Soon the whole village was in the pub, listening to Paul McCartney on the pub piano playing the as-yet-unreleased 'Hey Jude'. Every Harrold resident danced and sang along, and the revelry went on until 3 a.m. It was beautiful, perfect, spontaneous and full of love. Harrold. You couldn't make it up. ~ Bob Stanley

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry. ~ Paul McCartney

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor. ~ Paul McCartney

It's like John Lennon writing with ... Taylor Swift instead of Paul McCartney. ~ Rainbow Rowell

All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing. ~ Paul McCartney

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 ~ Paul McCartney

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing. ~ Paul McCartney

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals. ~ Paul McCartney

There are seven levels! ~ Paul McCartney

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. ~ Paul McCartney

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion. ~ Paul McCartney

Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind. ~ Paul McCartney

There was one moment where they were riding their little ponies in Scotland, and Stella said to me: 'Dad! You're Paul McCartney, aren't you?' 'Yes darling, but I'm Daddy really'. ~ Paul McCartney

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment. ~ Paul McCartney

To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'. ~ John Lennon

Depending on how you looked at it, Darren was our Mick Jagger (designated swaggering extrovert) to Simon's Keith Richards (quietly virtuosic, blatantly self-destructive). Or else Darren had been Paul McCartney (chirpily commercial) and Simon had been John Lennon (moody, introspective, possessed of quasi-mystical insights). ~ Austin Grossman

When a war is over I think it's a cowardly thing to leave the war behind you in minefields that hit women and children and the most vulnerable. Imagine the war is finished and you go to work and there are snipers shooting at you. Imagine taking your kids to the beach and you find that the beach is blowing up beneath you. Like there's nowhere safe. ~ Paul McCartney

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire. ~ Paul McCartney

Choochiness is yet another British term that has no precise meaning, but, like pornography, you know it when you see it. The way I have things stacked up, choochiness is a particularly British amalgam of cuddlywuddliness, cutesypiedness, and butter-wouldn't-melt-in-my-mouthedness that embraces everything from shops named The Ketch to Hugh Grant's stammer. It is a grating and often maddening behavioral pattern that makes others want to reach out and pinch the choochster's cheeks while secretly longing to stuff a hand grenade right down his throat. "Paul McCartney is choochy; John Lennon is not," says my brother-in-law, Max, who fled England for France in 1976, largely to escape from rampant choochiness. "Paul McCartney: choochy. John Lennon: not choochy. That's the difference." THERE ~ Joe Queenan

'I Want To Hold Your Hand' is a great classic by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, I sure love that song. I did like the classic version, a rock-oriented song, then someone heard me do it with the Grant Green approach - Grant Green and Larry Young did it, with a bossa nova beat on the funky side. ~ George Benson

You've got to believe in yourself..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles ... Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good. ~ Paul McCartney

This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with. ~ Paul McCartney

I only ever asked two people to work with me as a partner. One was Paul McCartney and the other Yoko Ono. Paul and me were the Beatles. ~ John Lennon

I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics. ~ Paul McCartney

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. ~ Paul McCartney

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward. ~ Paul McCartney

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared. ~ Paul McCartney

He likes to think he's Paul McCartney. But Paul McCartney is a gentle soul. And a monogamist. ~ Rainbow Rowell

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids. ~ Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney would be the end all, be all. To work with Paul would just be amazing. ~ Drake Bell

As far as art's concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art. ~ Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney has a voice that can do anything! ~ Phil Spector

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard. ~ Paul McCartney

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles. ~ Paul McCartney

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball! ~ Paul McCartney

I'd like to be in a man band, but with Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and Keith Richards. We'd have a rocky edge. ~ Ringo Starr

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer. ~ Paul McCartney

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you. ~ Paul McCartney

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money. ~ Paul McCartney

My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum. ~ Paul McCartney

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it. ~ Paul McCartney

Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust. ~ Paul McCartney

Dylan's friend Linus Millberg appears out of the crowd with a cup of beer and shouts, 'Dorothy is John Lennon, the Scarecrow is Paul McCartney, the Tin Woodman is George Harrison, the Lion's Ringo.'
'Star Trek,' commands Dylan over the lousy twangy country CB's is playing between sets.
'Easy,' Linus shouts back. "Kirk's John, Spock's Paul, Bones is George, Scotty is Ringo. Or Chekov, after the first season. Doesn't matter, it's like a Scotty-Chekov-combination Ringo. Spare parts are always surplus Georges or Ringos.'
'But isn't Spock-lacks-a-heart and McCoy-lacks-a-brain like Woodman and Scarecrow? So Dorothy's Kirk?'
'You don't get it. That's just a superficial coincidence. The Beatle thing is an archetype, it's like the basic human formation. Everything naturally forms into a Beatles, people can't help it.'
'Say the types again.'
'Responsible-parent genius-parent genius-child clown-child.'
'Okay, do Star Wars.'
'Luke Paul, Han Solo John, Chewbacca George, the robots Ringo.'
'Tonight Show.'
'Uh, Johnny Carson Paul, the guest John, Ed McMahon Ringo, whatisname George.'
'Doc Severinson.'
'Yeah, right. See, everything revolves around John, even Paul. That's why John's the guest.'
'And Severinson's quiet but talented, like a Wookie.'
'You begin to understand. ~ Jonathan Lethem

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course. ~ Paul McCartney

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was. ~ Paul McCartney

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells. ~ Paul McCartney