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Paul McCartney Quotes

We started to notice that whatever we did the Stones sort of did it shortly thereafter. We went to America and had huge success, then the Stones went to America. We did Sergeant Pepper and the Stones did a psychedelic album. There was a lot of that.

– Paul McCartney

The Stones are rooted in the blues. When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues. We had a little more influences. There’s a lot of differences, and I love the Stones, but I’m with you. The Beatles were better.

– Paul McCartney

Interview with Howard Stern.

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

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

– Paul McCartney

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn’t like either to interfere with the other.

– Paul McCartney

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

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

– Paul McCartney

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.

– Paul McCartney

Love is all you need.

– Paul McCartney

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John’s death.

– Paul McCartney

I used to think that anyone doing anything weird was weird. I suddenly realized that anyone doing anything weird wasn’t weird at all and it was the people saying they were weird that were weird.

– Paul McCartney

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

– Paul McCartney

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

– Paul McCartney

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

– Paul McCartney

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

– Paul McCartney

I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.

– Paul McCartney

One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.

– Paul McCartney

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

– Paul McCartney

Think globally, act locally.

– Paul McCartney

When you first get money, you buy all these things so no one thinks you’re mean, and you spread it around. You get a chauffeur and you find yourself thrown around the back of this car and you think, I was happier when I had my own little car! I could drive myself!

– Paul McCartney

To keep the record straight, it wasn’t always John and Yoko. We’ve all accused one another of various business things; we tend to be pretty paranoid by now, as you can imagine. There’s a lot of money involved.

– Paul McCartney

We were pretty good mates until the Beatles started to split up and Yoko came into it. It was more like old army buddies splitting up on account of wedding bells.

– Paul McCartney

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I’ve gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

– Paul McCartney

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

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.

– Paul McCartney

The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

– Paul McCartney

Somewhere down the line everyone must pay for their misdeeds.

– Paul McCartney

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

– Paul McCartney

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

– Paul McCartney

Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.

– Paul McCartney

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