When I write, there are times — not always — when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, I’ll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI love to hear a choir. I love the humanity. To see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.
More Paul McCartney Quotes
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There will be an answer. Let it be.
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you’re always still thinking there’s somebody out there who’s better than you.
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I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.
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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.
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Sadness 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.
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I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
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But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.
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To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.
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I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.
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Lyricists play with words.
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Think globally, act locally.
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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.
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I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.
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Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.
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If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
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