Latest Paul McCartney Quotes from Interviews

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• People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

  Paul McCartney

  Arrows, People, Suffering

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• Painting 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 McCartney

  Couple, Thrill, Add

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Somewhere Else, Apples

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

• I think when you're making an album, as the songs are piling up, one of the good things about it is that you will often write the song that you need.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

  Paul McCartney

  Literature, Levels, Study

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• I'm not really comfortable singing without accompanying myself on stage - I'm not used to it.

  Paul McCartney

  Singing, Used, Stage

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.

  Paul McCartney

  Writing, Thinking, Pieces

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.

  Paul McCartney

  Ideas, Two, Add

  Source: www.clashmusic.com

• I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies.

  Paul McCartney

  Homeopathy, Manage, I Can

  "US Government Might Not, but These 10 Celebrities Believe in Homeopathy". www.indiatoday.in. November 22, 2016.

• I think globally and act locally.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking

• I am not religious, but I am spiritual.

  Paul McCartney

  Spiritual, Religious

• I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Had Enough, Minutes

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  Paul McCartney

  Voice, Brain, Trying

  Source: www.wbur.org

• A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

  Paul McCartney

  Track, Sound, Albums

  Source: www.wbur.org

• 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.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Awards, Matter

  Source: www.wbur.org

• So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

  Paul McCartney

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: www.wbur.org

• I'm actually doing what I want with my life. I do sometime think I could just shut up and rest on my laurels and say: you know what guys, I'll operate out of the pocket you put me in.... but no way! No way I'm gonna do that! I'd just get bored stiff the first minute.

  Paul McCartney

  Thinking, Bored, Guy

  "Check His Machine: Paul McCartney Interviewed On McCartney II". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. June 14, 2011.

• I do have a spongelike ear or mentality or whatever you call it, but it's probably a bit subconscious.

  Paul McCartney

  Ears, Subconscious, Bits

  "Check His Machine: Paul McCartney Interviewed On McCartney II". Interview with Stephen Dalton, thequietus.com. June 14, 2011.

• The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Successful, Magic

  Source: www.today.com

• I 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 McCartney

  People, Want, Changed

  Source: www.today.com

• The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

  Paul McCartney

  Growing Up, Our Generation, People

  Source: www.today.com

• Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Eras

  Source: www.today.com

• That's not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It's just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.

  Paul McCartney

  Christian, Relatives And Friends, People

  Source: dmme.net

• I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

  Paul McCartney

  Believe, Government, Play

  Source: dmme.net

• 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 happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Art, Writing

  "Paul McCartney Is Esquire's August Cover Star". Interview with Alex Bilmes, www.esquire.com. February 7, 2015.