Paul McCartney Quotes

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

People who paint, including myself, get to a point where a bit of angst comes in. If you're doing it for a living, it's worth it to suffer those slings and arrows.

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.

Help them to learn songs of joy, instead of burn, baby, burn.

We would normally play it to Cynthia or whoever was around

I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.

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

My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

Criticism didn't really stop us and it shouldn't ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can't get a record deal themselves.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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

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.

What's wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.

Fight for the right to live in freedom!

Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs

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.

If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.

I knew the words to 25 rock songs, so I got in the group. Long Tall Sally and Tutti-Frutti, that got me in. That was my audition.

Give Ireland back to the Irish, don't make them have to take it away.

I was impossible. I don't know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.

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.

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

Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

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

Every love song I write is for Linda.

Everybody's talking about the President, we all chipped in for a bag of cement.

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

It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.

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

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.'

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.

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

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.

I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a criminal.

For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun...

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.

I think the French girls are fabulous.

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.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

You guys ready to do this?

So many times, I will have people tell me what I did when I was younger. There's so much being written [about] the early Beatles period, and even pre-Beatles period. And people will say, "Oh, he did that because that, and that happened because of that." And I'll be reading and think, "Well, that didn't happen" and, "That's not why I did that." Like anyone's history, you remember what went down better than people who weren't there.

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.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

I lost my voice. I'd never had to cancel a show before and I had to walk around with a pad and a pen, writing things down.

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

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.