Lyricists play with words.
PAUL MCCARTNEYLyricists play with words.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTo this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf I were dead, I would be the last to know.
PAUL MCCARTNEYWhat’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEYTranscendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
PAUL MCCARTNEYPutting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIf You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.
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 MCCARTNEYBend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAnd what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
PAUL MCCARTNEYBut you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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 MCCARTNEYTrumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThe interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
PAUL MCCARTNEY