Quotes By Paul Mccartney

I figure I've probably got a better chance of coming up with a good Paul McCartney song than Oasis has.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

I don't work at being ordinary.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

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

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

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

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.