Paul McCartney Quotes

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

There will be no wardrobe malfunction with me. I can promise you that.... I have nothing I will be exposing or taking off.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

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

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

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.

There is good and bad in everyone.

I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

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

I think globally and act locally.

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

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you're mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

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 you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’ When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.

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

Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

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

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.

Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.

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

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

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

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.

Think globally, act locally.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

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

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

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.

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

The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

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.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

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.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.