Paul McCartney Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

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

  Paul McCartney

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Song: Golden Slumbers

• What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Say Anything

• One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

  Paul McCartney

  Music, Song, Guitar

• Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Loss, Lovely

• There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

  Paul McCartney

  Funny, Music, Song

• 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

  Song, Writing, Ideas

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

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Cuz, Noise

• Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Two, Together

• I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Rocks, Long

• Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Baby, Rock And Roll

  Song: Pipes Of Peace

• Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

  Paul McCartney

  I Miss You, Song, Eye

  Song: All My Loving

• 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.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Thinking, Appreciate

  "Paul McCartney Blows 'Kisses' To His Father's Era". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. March 29, 2012.

• I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Thinking

• I'm always writing songs, and I've got a bunch that I want to record.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Records

• It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

  Paul McCartney

  Beautiful, Song, Powerful

  "COVER STORY : Ob-la-di, Life Goes On : Paul McCartney was crushed by the Beatles' dissolution in 1970, but he's singing a different tune now (about and with the group)". Interview with Robert Hilburn, articles.latimes.com. November 12, 1995.

• 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 think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Moving, Thinking

• 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. I'm still planning to write better songs.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Years

• Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Heart, People

• 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

• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Kids, Thinking

• 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.

• 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 think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Thinking, Trying

• John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.

  Paul McCartney

  Song, Writing, Mean

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