Paul McCartney Quotes

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...

There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.

I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.

When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.

Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.

Alas, it looks like those unsubstantiated rumours about me are about to come true after all this time.

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.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

I've got a few guitars that I like. The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.

You guys ready to do this?

John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

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.

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

I'm singing 'English Tea' from my new album 'Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.' I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it's something good to wake up to.

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

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 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.

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.

Linda's at her best when she's doing you a meal at home. That's when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.

I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

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.

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.

Fight for the right to live in freedom!

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

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

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

Most people don't know that I invented the selfie.

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 hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

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

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

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.

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.

And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.

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.

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

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.