Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 11

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

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

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

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

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.

It's nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.

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

You're always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that's exactly what they are, they're your formative years.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

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.

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.

In Liverpool we'd only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.

For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.

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.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

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.

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

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.

At the office where the paper grows, she takes a break, drinks another coffee, and she finds it hard to stay awake. It's just another day.

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.

Fight for the right to live in freedom!

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.