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Paul McCartney
33 quotes
“She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: About Queen Elizabeth II, in an interview after the Beatles received their MBEs from her (26 October 1965)
“I really wish the people that look sort of in anger at the 'weirdos,' at the happenings, at the psychedelic freak-out, would instead of just looking with anger, just look with nothing; with no feeling; be unbiased about it. They really don't realize that what these people are talking about is something that they really want themselves. It's something that everyone wants. You know, it's personal freedom to be able to talk and be able to say things And it's dead straight! It's a real sort of basic pleasure for everyone. But it looks weird from the outside.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: From the TV show "It's So Far Out It's Straight Down", 18.1.1967
“Some fella said to me, "Have you had LSD, Paul?" And I said "Yes." And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Pop Chronicles: Show 39 - The Rubberization of Soul: The great pop music renaissance. Part 5, interview recorded 5.14.1968
“Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can't Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That's going too far.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969), p 107
“We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hit Parader (January 1970)
“I wasn't really dead.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 a clear blue." I had barely got to the end of the sentence when she closed her eyes and gently slipped away. She was unique, and the world is a better place for having known her. I love you, Linda.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Last words to his wife, Linda, as recounted by McCartney in a statement released to the press three days after her death; as quoted in "Linda's Death 'Heartbreak' for McCartney" by Emma Ross, Tucson Citizen (April 21, 1…
“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. But I'll eat Linda's veggie bacon. All her food was so good.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Animal Times interview, Fall, 1998
“Steve Martin came around for a barbecue once. I was grilling and he said, “Oh, no, I can’t have any of that.” I asked why not and he said, “Sorry, I’m vegetarian.” I said, “You didn’t know we are?! Everything on the grill is veggie!” He said, “Ahhh” and ate three veggie burgers and then asked where he could buy them.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1998 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Animal Times interview, Fall, 1998
“Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 96
“We're constantly being asked all sorts of very profound questions. But we're not very profound people. People say, 'What do you think of the H-bomb, of religion, of fan worship?' But we didn't really start thinking about these things until people asked us. And even then we didn't get much time to consider them. What do I think of the H-bomb? Well, here's an answer with the full weight of five O levels and one A level behind it: I don't agree with it.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 109
“I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Of arranging, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 175
“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.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beatles Anthology (2000)
“For cruelty to animals, vegetarianism is the great thing to get rid of that. For the planet, to prevent depleting the water and the land and everything, it’s a great idea. And I think it’s a great thing for your health, and doctors nowadays agree with that. There are plenty of great books and organizations, so no matter where you are, there is someone to help you. That’s your first step, and I think your second step is just look in the supermarket for good vegetarian food, and I think it’s so much more readily available now.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Sir Paul McCartney and PETA VP Dan Mathews Reflect on Two Decades of Activism (April 2005)
“We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2007 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On the Beatles' early expectations of their success (2007 interview with Larry King)
“What a fucking great band we were.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Discussing The Beatles in the documentary, All Together Now (2008)
“I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
“Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
“Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1965 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
“To lead a better life, I need my love to be here. Here, making each day of the year, Changing my life with a wave of her hand. Nobody can deny that there's something there.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Here, There and Everywhere" from Revolver (1966) - Full lyrics at Songfacts.com
“I want her everywhere and if she's beside me I know I need never care. But to love her is to need her Everywhere, knowing that love is to share each one believing that love never dies watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Here, There and Everywhere" (1966)
“Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us. When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Lovely Rita" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
“Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1967 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: When I'm Sixty-Four" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
“Hey Jude, don't make it bad Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart Then you can start to make it better.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Hey Jude" (1968)
“Obladi oblada life goes on bra Lala how the life goes on”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1968 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (1968)
“And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1969 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
“The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1970 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Long and Winding Road" from Let It Be (1970)
“I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1974 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Jet" from Band on the Run (1974)
“You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs I look around me and I see it isn't so Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs And what's wrong with that? I'd like to know 'Cause here I go again... I love you.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1976 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Silly Love Songs", 1976
“Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard, oh Lord why don't we?”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 1982 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ebony and Ivory" from Tug of War (1982)
“While the others had got married and moved out to suburbia, I had stayed in London and got into the arts scene through friends like Robert Fraser and Barry Miles and papers like The International Times. We opened the Indica gallery with John Dunbar, Peter Asher and people like that. I heard about people like John Cage, and that he’d just performed a piece of music called 4’33” (which is completely silent) during which if someone in the audience coughed he would say, ‘See?’ Or someone would boo and he’d say, ‘See? It’s not silence—it’s music.’ I was intrigued by all of that. So these things started to be part of my life. I was listening to Stockhausen; one piece was all little plink-plonks and interesting ideas. Perhaps our audience wouldn’t mind a bit of change, we thought, and anyway, tough if they do! We only ever followed our own noses—most of the time, anyway. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ was one example of developing an idea.”
Paul McCartney (born 1942) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 212