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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhen 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI like most kinds of music. So I haven’t got a bag, as they say. Except the big black one in the hall outside.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAnd what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
PAUL MCCARTNEYYou can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIn the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhy would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
PAUL MCCARTNEYSadness 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYLove doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTo this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don’t need high minded talk, they need results.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
PAUL MCCARTNEYWill you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere’s nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn’t exist before – I won’t compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.
PAUL MCCARTNEYBy 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYPutting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
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