Paul McCartney Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

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

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

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.

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

I don't work at being ordinary.

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

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

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

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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.

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

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

If I were dead, I would be the last to know.

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

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.

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

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

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."

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.

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

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

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

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.'

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

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

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

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

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".

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.

I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.

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

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

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

Think globally, act locally.

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

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.

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

One may not eat what has a face.

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

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

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.

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