Top 200 Paul McCartney Quotes (2025 Update)

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

— Paul McCartney

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2. “There will be an answer. Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

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3. “Let it be.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

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5. “Think globally, act locally.”

— Paul McCartney

6. “Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

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8. “Tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

10. “You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”

— Paul McCartney

11. “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?”

— Paul McCartney

12. “We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.”

— Paul McCartney

13. “For you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.”

— Paul McCartney

14. “I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.”

— Paul McCartney

15. “If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.”

— Paul McCartney

16. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

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17. “Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.”

— Paul McCartney

18. “There is good and bad in everyone.”

— Paul McCartney

19. “When you’re wide awake say it for goodness sake, it’s gonna be a great day.”

— Paul McCartney

20. “All the lonely people, where do they all come from?”

— Paul McCartney

21. “What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

23. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

24. “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...”

— Paul McCartney

25. “Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don’t we?”

— Paul McCartney

26. “I don’t work at being ordinary.”

— Paul McCartney

27. “When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.”

— Paul McCartney

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28. “Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

30. “Every love song I write is for Linda.”

— Paul McCartney

31. “Fight for the right to live in freedom!”

— Paul McCartney

32. “Most people don’t know that I invented the selfie.”

— Paul McCartney

33. “To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ’em.”

— Paul McCartney

34. “The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.”

— Paul McCartney

35. “Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

38. “Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.”

— Paul McCartney

39. “Rock it man. I know you will.”

— Paul McCartney

40. “There are two things John and I always do when we’re going to sit down and write a song. First of all we sit down. Then we think about writing a song.”

— Paul McCartney

41. “Love doesn’t come in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.”

— Paul McCartney

42. “If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.”

— Paul McCartney

43. “If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.”

— Paul McCartney

44. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

45. “Long live all us crazy soldiers Who were born under calico skies May we never be called to handle All the weapons of war we despise.”

— Paul McCartney

46. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

47. “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds actually wasn’t meant to say LSD It was a drawing that John’s son brought home from school Lucy was a kid in his school.”

— Paul McCartney

48. “I’m not into, Hey, what’s your sign? or any of that. But I don’t know how I got here, and I don’t know how I write songs. I don’t know why I breathe.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

50. “Give Ireland back to the Irish, don’t make them have to take it away.”

— Paul McCartney