Top 308 Quotes & Sayings by Paul McCartney - Page 3

Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.

I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what am I to do? He laughs it off when I try to tell him, he says it's not really harmful...' Of course you're half hoping the advice will be, 'Well, you know it's not that harmful; if you love him, if you talk to him about it, tell him maybe he should keep it in the garden shed or something,' you know, a reasonable point of view. But of course it was, 'No, no, all drugs are bad. Librium's good, Valium's good. But cannabis, ooooh!' I hate that unreasoned attitude.

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.

There is good and bad in everyone.

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

I think globally and act locally.

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!.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

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

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.

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

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

I'm still looking to write a great song.... You always are. You know, you never think, 'Well, that's enough ... that's good enough.'

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

A lot of artists use memories. A lot of prose writers, a lot of poets, a lot of songwriters, refer back to something. Generally it's all you've got, unless you're brilliant and can write totally in the now.

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.

I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop.

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.

I think it's something to do with the structural quality of the songs. We weren't actually trying to make stuff that was cool, or of the moment, although a lot of it was. We were trying to make stuff that was good enough to stick around and lo and behold, it has.

I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never completely crazy with cocaine. I'd been introduced to it and at first it seemed OK, like anything that's new and stimulating. When you start working your way through it, you start thinking: 'Mmm, this is not so cool an idea,' especially when you start getting those terrible comedowns.

And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?

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

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

It was bad on Linda. She had to deal with this guy who didn't want to get out of bed and, if he did, wanted to go back to bed pretty soon after. He wanted to drink earlier and earlier each day and didn't really see the point in shaving. I was generally pretty morbid.

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

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

No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.

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

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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!

The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so much better; I'm not sure we are. I tell people, We've beaten into submission every animal on the face of the Earth, so we are the clear winners of whatever battle is going on between the species. Couldn't we be generous? I really do think it's time to get nice. No need to keep beating up on them. I think we've got to show that we're kind.

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.

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

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.

The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

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

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

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.

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.

The most important ingredient to making a song work is the magic. You've got a melody, you've got words, but on the more successful songs, there's a sort of magic glow that just happens and you can feel it happening. It just makes the songs sort of roll out.

When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.

Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record and I'd feel great, beautiful.

I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.

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.

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?

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

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

If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].

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".

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.

The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him

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

When I left the Beatles, I made an album called McCartney that I played everything on. And it was kind of a cool experience. I felt like a professor in a laboratory, just crafting stuff and adding this, and putting this on and moving the microphone, and it was very homemade.

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.

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

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.

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

When I write, there are times -- not always -- when I hear John (Lennon) in my head, ... I'll think, OK, what would we have done here?, and I can hear him gripe or approve.

Pete Ham in the group was a very good writer. He wrote the Nilsson song "Without You", which is a seriously good song. But the poor fellow topped himself. He was a lovely bloke, I can still see him now. It was a terrible loss.

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.