Paul McCartney Quotes

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

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

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.

I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't know how I write songs. I don't know why I breathe.

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

I don't work at being ordinary.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

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.

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.

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

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

My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn't buy it back. I don't know, really. I just couldn't bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

I'm mad, you know? I don't think of retiring at all.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.

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.'

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

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

I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

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

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

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

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!

John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

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.

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

It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it's convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

The music publishing I own is fabulous recording.

I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

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

It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.

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.

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

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

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

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

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