Top 78 Quotes by Paul McCartney

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.

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.

I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.