Top 200 Paul McCartney Quotes (2025 Update)
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201. “All at once we see things in our skies, and we both realize it together. Well you know they were wrong, get on the right thing.”

— Paul McCartney

202. “The Pound is sinking, the Peso’s failing, the Lira’s reeling, and feeling quite appalling.”

— Paul McCartney

203. “It comes in handy in situations like that. People always expect you to be riding around in stretch limousines all the time, but I will sometimes take public transportation if it’s convenient, and it does surprise people, you see the heads turn.”

— Paul McCartney

204. “The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.”

— Paul McCartney

205. “My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.”

— Paul McCartney

206. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

207. “It’s not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that’s your pool of resources. If you were to write something now, I bet there’s a pretty good chance you’d call on your teenage years, your experiences then, stuff you learned then.”

— Paul McCartney

208. “I feel like I’m running in a figure of eight, don’t know if I’m coming or going, early or late.”

— Paul McCartney

209. “I’m often reading a magazine and hearing about someone’s new record, and I think : “Oh, boy, that’s gonna be better than me”. It’s a very common thing.”

— Paul McCartney

210. “I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don’t want to stop.”

— Paul McCartney

211. “You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

213. “I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn’t realize I’d taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn’t do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn’t have fancied heading down that road.”

— Paul McCartney

214. “I’m not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.”

— Paul McCartney

215. “If you’re using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.”

— Paul McCartney

216. “I think the pop industry is still a young man’s game.”

— Paul McCartney

217. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

218. “We don’t eat anything that has to be killed for us.”

— Paul McCartney

219. “I’m mad, you know? I don’t think of retiring at all.”

— Paul McCartney

220. “It’s like there was me, then the Beatles phase, and now I’m me again.”

— Paul McCartney

221. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

222. “Love is a robber and he lives within your eyes.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

224. “But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.”

— Paul McCartney

225. “I’m trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it’s not working to your taste, what can I say?”

— Paul McCartney

226. “This is the first time I’ve ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.”

— Paul McCartney

227. “There are a lot of artists who haven’t lost anything to domesticity. In my case, it probably did happen.”

— Paul McCartney

228. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

229. “I would have liked the Beatles never to have broken up. I wanted to get us back on the road doing small places, then move up to our previous form and then go and play. Just make music, and whatever else there was would be secondary.”

— Paul McCartney

230. “We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around.”

— Paul McCartney

231. “Some people don’t believe in climate warning – like those who don’t believe there was a Holocaust.”

— Paul McCartney

232. “It’s a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.”

— Paul McCartney

233. “My so-called career is a haphazard thing.”

— Paul McCartney

234. “Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they’re drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

237. “Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.”

— Paul McCartney

238. “It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.”

— Paul McCartney

239. “I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.”

— Paul McCartney

240. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

241. “Drugs had shown me little bits here and there-they had rolled across the carpet once or twice, but I had been able to get them out of my mind.”

— Paul McCartney

242. “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.”

— Paul McCartney

243. “There’s nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.”

— Paul McCartney

244. “In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.”

— Paul McCartney

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

— Paul McCartney

246. “And in the end.”

— Paul McCartney