Paul McCartney Quotes

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'.

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

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

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.

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

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.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

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

I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.

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

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

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.

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.

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

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

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

There is good and bad in everyone.

I think globally and act locally.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.

I'm not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.

I think the French girls are fabulous.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

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

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

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

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

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

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