Top 55 Paul McCartney Quotes

John’s time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody’s perfect, nobody’s Jesus. And look what they did to him.

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

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

I can’t deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

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.

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

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

Where I come from, you don’t really talk about how much you’re earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I’m certainly not going to tell the world. I’m doing well.

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.

So, if I’m cooking, I’ll be steaming vegetables, making some nice salad, that kind of stuff.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn’t like either to interfere with the other.

I’m a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Putting two songs together, I’ve always loved that trick when it works.

Lyricists play with words.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

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.

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

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.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that’s all I’m ever trying to do.

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

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

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.

You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.

To keep the record straight, it wasn’t always John and Yoko. We’ve all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There’s a lot of money involved.

Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.

It’s also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

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

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.

It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.

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.

And I loved Fats Waller. I love his instrumental abilities, his vocal abilities and his sense of humor.

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it’s commercially successful, that’s a good sign that it’s being heard.

Think globally, act locally.

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn’t a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

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.

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts are playing great too.

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

I don’t work at being ordinary.

Love is all you need.

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

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

My old school in Liverpool is now a performing-arts school, and I kind of teach there – I use the word lightly – but I go there and talk to students.

I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So we did it like that, ‘cuz I like noise.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don’t want to say anything.

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you’re mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

I’m always writing songs, and I’ve got a bunch that I want to record.

I’m the worst on facts about me or facts about the Beatles.

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

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I’ve gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

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

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.