Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
-
-
Lyricists play with words.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I think the minute you’re full up and have had enough to eat, then that’s time to retire.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It’s simple.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
There’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 MCCARTNEY -
Think globally, act locally.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I 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 MCCARTNEY -
What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY






