Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Sir James Paul McCartney, MBEis an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. With John Lennon, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, he gained worldwide fame with the rock band the Beatles, one of the most popular and influential groups in the history of pop music. His songwriting partnership with Lennon is one of the most celebrated of the 20th century. After the band's break-up, he pursued a solo career and formed Wings with his first wife, Linda, and Denny Laine...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth18 June 1942
CityLiverpool, England
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
If you love your life, everybody will love you too.
Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.
Take these broken wings and learn to fly.
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird.
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.
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."
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
I don't work at being ordinary.
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.
To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.