Top 200 Paul McCartney Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people’s hearts.”

— Paul McCartney

52. “I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

54. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

55. “Everybody’s talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.”

— Paul McCartney

56. “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

57. “If you love your life, everybody will love you too.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

59. “It’s nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.”

— Paul McCartney

60. “Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces.”

— Paul McCartney

61. “In Liverpool we’d only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

63. “I think the French girls are fabulous.”

— Paul McCartney

64. “But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.”

— Paul McCartney

65. “I don’t ever try to make a serious social comment.”

— Paul McCartney

66. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

67. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

68. “You guys ready to do this?”

— Paul McCartney

69. “Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.”

— Paul McCartney

70. “The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.”

— Paul McCartney

71. “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?”

— Paul McCartney

72. “When two great saints meet, it’s a humbling experience.”

— Paul McCartney

73. “I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.”

— Paul McCartney

74. “I go back so far I’m in front of me.”

— Paul McCartney

75. “You’re always looking at last year, or 10 years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that’s exactly what they are, they’re your formative years.”

— Paul McCartney

76. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

78. “I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.”

— Paul McCartney

79. “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”.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

81. “And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

83. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

84. “My stepmother sold my birth certificate and someone asked why I didn’t buy it back. I don’t know, really. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing and suddenly I had to buy it back.”

— Paul McCartney

85. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

86. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

87. “I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

89. “And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

92. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

93. “Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I’d feel great, beautiful.”

— Paul McCartney

94. “My brother’s researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

96. “Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.”

— Paul McCartney

97. “That’s not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument I have a lot of Christian friends and Moslem friends. It’s just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.”

— Paul McCartney

98. “Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can’t tell people. And it will answer you with things people can’t tell you.”

— Paul McCartney

99. “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

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

— Paul McCartney