The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all.… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I'm not into, Hey, what's your sign? or any of that. But I don't know how I got here, and I don't… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
There are two things John and I always do when we're going to sit down and write a song. First of all… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I just start singing some words with a tune. I don't ever write a song thinking, Now I'll write a song about... . — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
To keep the record straight, it wasn't always John and Yoko. We've all accused one another of various business things; we tend… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
My record producer [David Kahne] said the major record labels these days are like dinosaurs sitting around discussing the asteroid. They know… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for… — Paul McCartney Copy Share
Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't… — Paul McCartney Copy Share
The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did… — Paul McCartney Copy Share
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death. — Paul McCartney Copy Share
I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not… — Paul McCartney Copy Share
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily… — Paul McCartney Copy Share
...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend. — Paul McCartney Copy Share
I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever.… — Paul McCartney Copy Share
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard. — Paul McCartney Copy Share
My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish. — Paul McCartney Copy Share
I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. — Paul McCartney Copy Share
Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around. — Paul McCartney Copy Share
“Paul: 'After recording sessions, at two or three in the morning, we'd be careering through the villages on the way to Weybridge, shouting 'weyhey'… — Paul McCartney Copy Share