Paul McCartney Quotes

I still believe that love is all you need. I don't know a better message than that.

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

If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas.

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.

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.

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.

If you love your life, everybody will love you too.

I don't work at being ordinary.

I love to hear a choir. I love the humanity... to see the faces of real people devoting themselves to a piece of music. I like the teamwork. It makes me feel optimistic about the human race when I see them cooperating like that.

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

I doubt very much if The Beatles would have happened if it was not for Elvis.

Think globally, act locally.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

You've got to believe in yourself. ..it really is true, because that's one thing about the Beatles...Man, we believed in ourselves. We knew we were good.

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.

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

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.

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

Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.

There will be an answer. Let it be.

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

Painting is similar to music. You get a couple or words or notes or chords that excite you, and you just follow them and add a bit more and see where it takes you. That's the thrill for me. It still is a thrill, which is amazing after all this time.

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

I realized marvelling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.