None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.
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.”
More Paul McCartney Quotes
-
-
The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I think the French girls are fabulous.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I 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.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I 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 MCCARTNEY -
By 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 MCCARTNEY -
My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
When I sit down to write a song, it’s a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I’m about to do.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
She 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 MCCARTNEY -
I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it’s got a certain kind of significance.
PAUL MCCARTNEY -
I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.
PAUL MCCARTNEY






