Paul McCartney Quotes - Page 6

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

I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.

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.

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

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

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

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

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.

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

But you know, as a kid I would have thought of a vegetarian as a wimp.

I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.

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.

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

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.

You can fill my appetite without me taking up a bite.

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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