There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
PAUL MCCARTNEYThere’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAt 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYPainting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That’s the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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 MCCARTNEYWhat I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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 MCCARTNEYFor tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.
PAUL MCCARTNEYShe is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.
PAUL MCCARTNEYHaving a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEYIt was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
PAUL MCCARTNEYI 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 MCCARTNEYA hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
PAUL MCCARTNEYAnd what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?
PAUL MCCARTNEY