"I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind."
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Paul McCartney quotes (page 6 of 16)
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"Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun."
"There will be an answer. Let it be."
"We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us"
"I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man."
"Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life."
"I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire."
"The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!"
"To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!."
"If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books."
"It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources."
"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 noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!"
"My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17."
"My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing."
"When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade."
"Putting two songs together, I've always loved that trick when it works."
"Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn't meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John's son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school."
"I don't ever try to make a serious social comment."
"It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film."
"Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement."