460 Quotes by Paul McCartney

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

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.

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

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.

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.

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

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.