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
Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.
To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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.
I am not religious, but I am spiritual.
And when at last I find you/ Your song will fill the air.
Sometimes when you write a thing you think, 'Oh, this is good', and it's not a modesty or an immodesty thing, you just... it's just the same with anything; when you write a piece you just figure, 'Oh yeah, I'm on a roll here. This is good; I'm getting the hang of this'. Some pieces are better than others.
With the Beatles, we'd been very spoiled because we had George Martin who worked for the record label we were going to be signed to. That was very fortunate, because we grew together.
I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.
The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.
I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.