160 Paul McCartney Quotes You Must Read In 2021

Here we have compiled a list of 160 best and famous quotes by Paul McCartney. These include sayings from his super hit lyrics and inspirational words. Also, here you’ll get his quotes about love, life, peace, songs, and music.

In the 1990s, a pop culture icon was born. That’s right- we are talking about Paul McCartney! He has had many different hits throughout his career as well as he was an Oscar winner.

He was a brilliant English singer, songwriter, musician, and record and film producer with massive fame worldwide. However, he is most known for being in one of the world’s bestselling bands: The Beatles.

Paul McCartney became famous after debuting with ‘The Beatles’ in 1960, where he started his journey from playing clubs around Liverpool, England. Over a short period of time, he became an international icon who is still loved today by millions worldwide who listen to his music band.

Best Paul McCartney Quotes

So, let’s start exploring these iconic quotes by an amazing musician. We hope you’ll love to read these all; scroll down and start!

“And what’s the point of changing when I’m happy as I am?” — Paul McCartney
“In Liverpool, we’d only done one-hour sessions. In Hamburg, we had to play for eight hours. We played very loud, bang, bang, all the time. The Germans loved it.” — Paul McCartney
“If I were dead, I would be the last to know.” — Paul McCartney
“But with writers, there’s nothing wrong with melancholy. It’s an important color in writing.” — Paul McCartney
“None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds, he was the fat guy who always played at the back.” — Paul McCartney
“Everybody’s talking about the President; we all chipped in for a bag of cement.” — Paul McCartney
“I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I’m not too sure I’m gonna get them back.” — Paul McCartney
“If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.” — Paul McCartney
“I think the French girls are fabulous.” — Paul McCartney
“The ring at the end of my nose makes me look rather pretty.” — Paul McCartney
“And Jet, I thought the Major was a lady suffragette.” — Paul McCartney
“I don’t ever try to make a serious social comment.” — Paul McCartney
“It’s like a lot of kids; when you tell them someone’s died, they laugh.” — Paul McCartney
“Jet, I can almost remember their funny faces.” — Paul McCartney
“I think the idea of getting out of a traffic jam and getting out of work each week and going and doing all this stuff would be really exhausting.” — Paul McCartney
“Where I come from, you don’t really talk about how much you’re earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I’m certainly not going to tell the world. I’m doing well.” — Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney Inspirational Quotes

“Most people don’t know that I invented the selfie.” — Paul McCartney
“I don’t work at being ordinary.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“When we were kids growing up in Liverpool, all we ever wanted to be was Elvis Presley.” — Paul McCartney
“Criticism didn’t really stop us, and it shouldn’t ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can’t get a record deal themselves.” — Paul McCartney
“Animation is not just for children – it’s also for adults who take drugs.” — Paul McCartney
“I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.” — Paul McCartney
“Bend like the willow, winds gonna blow you Hard and cold tonight. Life as it happens, nobody warns you, willow hold on tight.” — Paul McCartney
“That’s not really important what religion people are attached to, because by the same argument, I have a lot of Christian friends and Muslim friends. It’s just happened that I do have a lot of relatives and friends who are Jewish.” — Paul McCartney
“Ney “Somewhere down the line, everyone must pay for their misdeeds.” — Paul McCartney
“I realized marveling at nature was a deep pleasure of mine.” — Paul McCartney
“Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet; this is our little one, so we just got to be aware of it and take care of it.” — Paul McCartney
“I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.”?” — Paul McCartney
“What’s wrong with sentimental? Sentimental means you like stuff.” — Paul McCartney
“Ebony and ivory live together in perfect harmony, side by side on my keyboard piano, oh Lord, why don’t we?” — Paul McCartney
“People would say to me, “Hey man, you look just like Paul McCartney,” and I’d say: “I wish I had his money!” — Paul McCartney
“I do like Eddie Van Halen as a player. He gets it right quite often.” — Paul McCartney
“Microphones are just like people; if you shout at them, they get scared.” — Paul McCartney
“When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren’t.” — Paul McCartney
“My stepmother sold my birth certificate, and someone asked why I didn’t buy it back. I don’t know, really. I just couldn’t bring myself to do it. It was mine. It cost me nothing, and suddenly I had to buy it back.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“When two great saints meet, it’s a humbling experience.” — Paul McCartney
“You’re always looking at last year, or ten years ago, or your school days, or your teenage years, your formative years. Because that’s exactly what they are, they’re your formative years.” — Paul McCartney
“Having a beard is natural. When you think about it, shaving it off is quite weird.” — 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
“I never look forward because I have no idea about how any of it happened to getting here. I’ve no idea how the next five years are going to be.” — Paul McCartney
“I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that’s all I’m ever trying to do.” — Paul McCartney
“One may not eat what has a face.” — Paul McCartney
“Look, people are allowed their own opinions, and they don’t always coincide with yours. As an artist, you just have to keep plugging on.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“When you’re wide awake, say it for goodness’ sake, it’s gonna be a great day.” — Paul McCartney
“I’m not religious, but I’m very spiritual.” — Paul McCartney
“You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.” — Paul McCartney
“It’s nice to have a little bit of art to fall back on.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“There must be a better way to make the things we want, a way that doesn’t spoil the sky, or the rain or the land.” — Paul McCartney
“If they won’t come to worship God in a church, something must be done. We have to instigate a nationwide search for a way to make it fun.” — Paul McCartney
“I am a vegetarian because I realized that even little chickens suffer pain and fear, experience a range of feelings and emotions, and are as intelligent as mammals, including dogs, cats, and even some primates.” — Paul McCartney
“It’s time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.” — Paul McCartney
“The strange thing is, we never owned our own publishing; it was always getting bought and sold.” — Paul McCartney
“It’s been my ambition for about 30 years to do a full-length animation film.” — Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney quotes About Life

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.” — Paul McCartney
“Think globally, act locally.” — Paul McCartney
“I hate the idea of success robbing you of your private life.” — Paul McCartney
“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?” — Paul McCartney
“For you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
This was one of the best things about Lennon and McCartney, the competitive element within the team. It was great. But hard to live with.” — Paul McCartney
“I was impossible. I don’t know how anyone could have lived with me. For the first time in my life, I was on the scrap heap, an unemployed worker.” — Paul McCartney
“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.” — Paul McCartney
“We don’t eat anything that has to be killed for us. We’ve been through a lot, and we’ve reached a stage where we really value life.” — Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney Quotes from Songs

“There will be an answer. Let it be.” — Paul McCartney
“All the lonely people. Where do they all belong?”— Paul McCartney
“All the lonely people, where do they all come from?” — Paul McCartney
“If this ever-changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.” — Paul McCartney
“The willow turns his back on inclement weather. And if he can do it, we can do it.” — Paul McCartney
“Tomorrow may rain, so I’ll follow the sun.” — Paul McCartney
“Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.” — Paul McCartney
“I’ve got to admit it’s getting better. It’s a little better all the time.” — Paul McCartney
“We live in hope of deliverance from the darkness that surrounds us.” — Paul McCartney
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.” — Paul McCartney
“I go back so far I’m in front of me.” — Paul McCartney
“Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m sixty-four?” — Paul McCartney
“And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be…” — Paul McCartney
“If you come on to me, then I’ll come on to you.” — Paul McCartney
“Well, I saw you flash a smile, that seemed to me to say, you wanted so much more than casual conversation.” — Paul McCartney
“I could stay up half the night, trying to crack your code.” — Paul McCartney
“Live a little be a gypsy, get around. Get your feet up off the ground, live a little, get around.” — Paul McCartney
“I don’t think I can wait like I’m supposed to do.” — Paul McCartney
“How soon can we arrange a formal introduction?” — Paul McCartney
“I saw you flash a smile, that seemed to me to say.” — Paul McCartney
“You wanted so much more than casual conversation.” — Paul McCartney
“I swear I caught a look before you turned away.” — Paul McCartney
“Now I don’t see the point resisting your temptation.” — Paul McCartney
“I could stay up half the night, but I’d rather hit the road.” — 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
“Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.” — Paul McCartney
“She’s lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.” — Paul McCartney
“Before you grab your coat, I’ll try to be discreet; you know we can’t be seen exchanging information.” — Paul McCartney
“Close your eyes, and I’ll kiss you; Tomorrow, I’ll miss you.” — Paul McCartney
“There is good and bad in everyone.” — Paul McCartney
“Late at night when the wind is still, I’ll come flying through your door, and you’ll know what love is for. I am a bluebird; I’m a bluebird…” — Paul McCartney
“I’m not into, Hey, what’s your sign? or any of that. But I don’t know how I got here, and I don’t know how I write songs. I don’t know why I breathe.” — Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney quotes About Love

“In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.” — Paul McCartney
“I love the past. There are parts of the past I hate, of course.” — Paul McCartney
“If you love your life, everybody will love you too.” — Paul McCartney
“Personally, I think you can put any interpretation you want on anything, but when someone suggests that Can’t Buy Me Love is about a prostitute, I draw the line. That’s going too far.” — Paul McCartney
“Love doesn’t come in a minute; sometimes it doesn’t come at all.” — Paul McCartney
“To this day, if I ever meet grownups who play ukulele, I love ‘em.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
Paul’s last words to Linda: “You’re up on you? 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”.” — Paul McCartney
“Linda’s at her best when she’s doing you a meal at home. That’s when you see Linda. She cooks, she looks after the kids.” — Paul McCartney
“I don’t think of myself as a legend. I just love what I do. I love playing; Ih my band, I love going to beautiful places and give people good music. I lo; I’m at I do, I’m very lucky man.” — Paul McCartney
“My brothers researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.” — Paul McCartney
“Every love song I write is for Linda.” — Paul McCartney
“Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs.” — Paul McCartney
“The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.” — Paul McCartney
“I still believe that love is all you need. I don’t know a better message than that.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney quotes About Peace

“The trouble with fame and riches is that you have more than one guitar.” — Paul McCartney
“Fight for the right to live in freedom!” — Paul McCartney
“My message is a peaceful one, and I hope that the idea will spread.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is just stop eating meat.”. — Paul McCartney
“Transcendental Meditation gives me an island of calm in the midst of so much turbulence.” — Paul McCartney
“Give Ireland Back to the Irish, don’t make them have to take it away.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney

Paul McCartney quotes About Songs and Music

“Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people’s hearts.” — Paul McCartney
“If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.” — Paul McCartney
“I didn’t earn that much in record royalties. You’ve only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.” — Paul McCartney
“Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool.’” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“The music publishing, I own is fabulous recording.” — Paul McCartney
“When you got a job to do, you got to do it well. You gotta give the other fellow hell.” — 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
“Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.” — Paul McCartney
“I’m always writing songs, and I’ve got a bunch that I want to record.” — Paul McCartney
“It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.” — Paul McCartney
“My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.” — Paul McCartney
“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.” — Paul McCartney
“Sometimes you write a song in a certain era, and it’s got a certain kind of significance.” — 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
“There’s nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.” — Paul McCartney
“I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.” — Paul McCartney
“Lyricists play with words.” — Paul McCartney
“Every time I felt low, I just put on an Elvis record, and I’d feel great, beautiful.” — Paul McCartney
“A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.” — Paul McCartney
“Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.” — Paul McCartney
“The Stones also still have a huge following. Mick Jagger leaps around like a crazy dude. And Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, and Charlie Watts are playing great too.” — Paul McCartney
“It’s a powerful thing hearing your friend on a very beautiful song.” — Paul McCartney
“I think a domestic situation can change you and your attitudes. I suppose if you did get a bit content, then you might not write savage lyrics.” — Paul McCartney
“I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.” — 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
“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
“I’m singing ‘English Tea’ from my new album ‘Chaos and Creation in the Backyard.’ I have a cup of tea in the morning, so it’s something good to wake up to.” — Paul McCartney
“I had this song called Helter Skelter, which is just a ridiculous song. So, we did it like that because I like noise.” — Paul McCartney
“John could write a mean song. He had a lot of venom in him. Whereas I had a happy childhood.” — Paul McCartney
“I have always adored Mahler, and Mahler was a major influence on the music of the Beatles. John and me used to sit and do the Kindertotenlieder and Wunderhorn for hours; we’d take turns singing and playing the piano. We thought Mahler was gear.” — Paul McCartney
“What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.” — Paul McCartney
“At the end of the Beatles, I really was done in for the first time in my life. Until then, I really was a kind of cocky sod.” — Paul McCartney
“Lady Madonna lying on the bed Listen to the music playing in your head.” — Paul McCartney