Paul mccartney quotes

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.

Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.

Many years ago I was fishing, and as I was reeling in the poor fish, I realised, 'I am killing him - all for the passing pleasure it brings me'. Something inside me clicked. I realised as I watched him fight for breath that his life was as important to him as mine is to me.

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

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.

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat. That's the single most important thing you could do. It's staggering when you think about it. Vegetarianism takes care of so many things in one shot: ecology, famine, cruelty.

Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...

You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous. So when we got on a bus, he would always encourage me and my younger brother to get up and offer our seat to an old lady. I grew up kind of liking that, thinking, y'know, that's a nice thing, that's a courtesy.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

I used to go round to Aunt Mimi's house and John would be at the typewriter, which was fairly unusual in Liverpool. None of my mates even knew what a typewriter was. Well they knew what it was but they didn't hae one. Nobody had one.

I can't manage without homeopathy. In fact, I never go anywhere without homeopathic remedies. I often make use of them.

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.

To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.

For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...

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

By the time we made "Abbey Road", John and I were openly critical of each other's music, and I felt John wasn't much interested in performing anything he hadn't written himself.

People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney”, and I'd say: “I wish I had his money!”

There is good and bad in everyone.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.

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

If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.

Think globally, act locally.

When you get the money, you still need to keep going; you don't stop. There has to be something else. I think it's the freedom to do what you want and to live your dreams.

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.

There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

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

In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.

I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

I am quite happy that the Beatles came and went. There is even a sort of glory in not having it go on forever. There is a complete body of work that went from A to Z and it is all pretty damn good stuff. The one thing I am particularly proud of is that nearly every single bit of it has some good message. I feel fortunate when I look back. Life is not easy, but I've been very lucky - and I'm touching wood as I say that.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

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.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

I don't work at being ordinary.

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

I'm only 49 years old. I'm still in the middle of this whole thing. I don't feel like it's finished at all. I'm still planning to write better songs.

Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through ... You can go into a trance while you're doing it, so it's a nice contrast to real life.

The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.

One may not eat what has a face.

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people`s hearts.

One of my great memories of John is from when we were having some argument. I was disagreeing and we were calling each other names. We let it settle for a second and then he lowered his glasses and he said: "It's only me." And then he put his glasses back on again. To me, that was John. Those were the moments when I actually saw him without the facade, the armor, which I loved as well, like anyone else. It was a beautiful suit of armor. But it was wonderful when he let the visor down and you'd just see the John Lennon that he was frightened to reveal to the world.

I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

Lyricists play with words.

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."

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

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.

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.

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.

Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I`m very lucky man.

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.

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.

I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.

To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love 'em.

My message is a peaceful one and I hope that the idea will spread.

I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.

Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I'd rather be out playing.

I have such an admiration for John [Lennon], like most people. But to be the guy who wrote with him, well that's enough. Right there you could retire and go, 'Jesus I had a fantastic life. Take me, Lord.'

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

There's nothing like the eureka moment of knocking off a song that didn't exist before - I won't compare it to sex, but it lasts longer.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

Paul's last words to Linda: "You're up on your beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It's a fine spring day. We're riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue".

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

It's not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there's a pretty good chance you'd call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

We got into music to avoid a job, and get lots of girls.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

Somebody said to me, 'But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.' That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, 'Now, let's write a swimming pool.'

There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn't spoil the sky, or the rain or the land

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

I think globally and act locally.

I'm not religious, but I'm very spiritual.

It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard 'Heartbreak Hotel' I thought, this is it.

A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.

I never look forward, because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I've no idea how the next five years are going to be.

I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.