Paul McCartney Quotes

If they won't come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.

I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

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'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

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

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

That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

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

George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them

I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn't do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn't have fancied heading down that road.

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.

Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces

Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

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

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

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

People don't like land mines, especially the survivors and the people who are living in the countries with them. They think they are cowardly, like we do, so I think it's down to the governments to actually just listen to the people and sign the treaty and get rid of all these things and there would be an end to it.

I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There's a lot of money involved.

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

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

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.

Lyricists play with words.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

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

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.