Paul McCartney Quotes

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.

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.

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

the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less

I realize now that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.

It's a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

That's the terrible thing about growing up. You lose friends. It's inevitable. It's not like it's a surprise. But it is terrible.

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

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

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

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

Love doesn't come in a minute, sometimes it doesn't come at all.

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.

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

Trumpets are a bit more adventurous; they're drunk! Trumpeters are generally drunk. It wets their whistle.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

The good Lord made this world and everything that's in it. The way I see it, baby, you got to love it to the limit.

Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.

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.

I like most kinds of music. So I haven't got a bag, as they say... except the big black one in the hall outside.

I look a lot busier than I am, as I'm actually a rather sporadic, random person and I'll play a few gigs and then disappear for a while.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us

Going to do it to you sweet banana, like it's never been done, and we'll get high, high, high, in the mid-day sun.

I don't take me seriously. If we get some giggles, I don't mind.

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.

It's like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone's died, they laugh.

I don't think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing with my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I love what I do, I'm very lucky man.

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

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

To get a big hit single you've got to go a bit dance. You've got to go a bit Britney. I don't think I can do that - well, I could but it wouldn't look very seemly!.

My mum died when I was 14. That is a kind of strange age to lose a mother. John lost his mum when he was 17.

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

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

It's been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full- length animation film.

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

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

Some people don't believe in climate warning - like those who don't believe there was a Holocaust.

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.

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.

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

I play to all people, and I play to people not governments, and I believe strongly that all people are peaceful and would want peace.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!