Quote

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

Paul McCartney

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Paul McCartney
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: June 18
Actor
Bass Guitarist
Bassist
Composer
Drummer
Film Producer
Film Score Composer
Guitarist
Lyricist
Musician
Painter
Pianist
City of Liverpool
Sir Paul McCartney
Macca
James Paul McCartney
Life
Beatles
Ends
Firsts
First
Done
Kind
Really
Sod
Time
Cocky

More quotes by Paul McCartney

Image
Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.
Paul McCartney
Image
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
Paul McCartney
Image
I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me. It's a very common thing.
Paul McCartney
Image
John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.
Paul McCartney
Image
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
Image
I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
Paul McCartney
Image
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.
Paul McCartney
Image
Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.
Paul McCartney
Image
Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.
Paul McCartney
Image
I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
Paul McCartney
Image
Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.
Paul McCartney
Image
My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.
Paul McCartney
Image
Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
Paul McCartney
Image
It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Paul McCartney
Image
The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.
Paul McCartney
Image
Think globally, act locally.
Paul McCartney
Image
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
Paul McCartney
Image
I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.
Paul McCartney
Image
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
Image
All we ever got in those [early] days was Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.
Paul McCartney