Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 10

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.

I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know it's going to hit. They don't know when, they don't know where it's coming from. But it's sort of hit already. With iTunes, and all of that.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

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.

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.

Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.

It's like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I'm me again.

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.

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

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

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don't we?

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

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.

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

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.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.