The Lyrics Quotes

“One of the things I always thought was the secret of The Beatles was that our music was self-taught. We were never consciously thinking of what we were doing. Anything we did came naturally. A breathtaking chord change wouldn't happen because we knew how that chord related to another chord. We weren't able to read music or write it down, so we just made it up. My dad was exactly the same. And there's a certain joy that comes into your stuff if you didn't mean it, if you didn't try to make it happen and it happens of its own accord. There's a certain magic about that. So much of what we did came from a deep sense of wonder rather than study. We didn't really study music at all.”
― Paul McCartney, The Lyrics

“As a boy, I thought everyone's family was like that, until I met people like John and realised that wasn't true, and perhaps it was the contrast of our different outlooks that produced a kind of magic. But I was born into that way of thinking, that it'll be okay in the end. Tragedy can happen but the page will turn, and I love that.”
― Paul McCartney, The Lyrics

“This song has a line that’s one of my favourites of all the lines I’ve ever written: ‘I go back so far I’m in front of me’. It’s one of those lines where you don’t know what it means but you do know what it means. I have no idea where it came from, though!”
― Paul McCartney, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present

“Instead of sitting around, I’d write something. Always with a guitar or a piano, never with anything else, and a pad and a pencil with a rubber on the end (even then, I was old school). When you’ve written enough, it’s time to put those songs in a bottle, so you can write some more. I like to get them out, get them away and clear the deck, let them ‘float out to sea’.”
― Paul McCartney, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present

“I’m grateful to have had parents who believed in me and my brother, loved us and provided us with a foundation that has enabled me to handle all the rough moments that have come my way.”
― Paul McCartney, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present