Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 9

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours, we'd take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... .

There are a lot of artists who haven't lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.

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.

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

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

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

Home in her apartment she'd dwell 'til the man from her dreams comes to break the spell.

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

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

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

We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

The long and winding road that leads to your door / Will never disappear, / I've seen that road before it always leads me here, / Leads me to your door.

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

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies.