Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 5

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.

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.

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".

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

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.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

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.

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

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

Lyricists play with words.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

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.

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!

Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

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

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.