Paul McCartney Quotes

Elvis was a giant and influenced everyone in the business.

My mom listened to the Beatles and Elvis, a lot of different types of music.

From 1962 to 1965, the guitar became this icon of youth culture, thanks mostly to the Beatles.

Mary Queen of Scots is the most 'normal' girl who became a queen that I have ever written about.

When people think of hats, they think of her majesty the queen.

I'd like to be Queen Elizabeth.

If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

In the name of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth of England and her successors forever I take possession of this kingdome whose king and people freely resigne their right and title to the whole land unto Her Majesty.

She certainly is a great queen, and were she only a Catholic she would be our dearly beloved. Just look how well she governs; she is only a woman, only mistress of half an island, and yet she makes herself feared by Spain, by France, by the Empire, by all.

No, I don't think rock 'n' roll will ever fade.

The Rolling Stones... The Rolling Stones have a reflection to my music; I wouldn't deny it. I think that's honest.

As a kid, picturing people who grew up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I walking around in hose and latched shoes in the woods behind my house was an interesting atmospheric thing for me.

Rock & roll has kept us alive for all these years. But we just love country music. It's in our blood.

Queen Elizabeth, who said, Not now, I'm on the throne. Never got a dinner!

I learned music listening to Elvis' records. His measurable effect on culture and music was even greater in England than in the States.

I believe in Beatles, I believe my little soul has grown.

If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.

I did not initially take to the music of the Ramones, because I had never really heard of them before. Allan Arkush had given me a cassette of the Ramones and said, "You're their No. 1 fan, so I want you to know all of their songs and fall in love with these guys." I put the cassette on and I remember running around the house going, "Oh my God. That's music?"

KING, n. A male person commonly known in America as a "crowned head," although he never wears a crown and has usually no head to speak of.

I have never wanted to be a queen! Cleopatra was a role, and I am an actor, so it was fun to play one, but it's not real.

The Beatles changed the world. They certainly changed my world, and many, many other individuals as well.

Elvis was the first person in music that I really identified with.

I felt quite a responsibility when I played Elizabeth I but nobody here remembers her! And then I felt a responsibility when I played Queen Victoria but not many people remember her.

Yeah, yeah, I've been Beatled, I've been Rolling Stoned.

Led Zeppelin, they still rule the airwaves. I hear Zeppelin every day, and they've been around since '69. So the people who grew up with that still listen to that, and now their children listen to it.