Quotes By Paul McCartney

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

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.

I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.

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.

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.

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there - I use the word lightly - but I go there and talk to students.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, 'cuz I like noise.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn't weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

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.

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.