Paul McCartney Quotes

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

Others, Used, Anyone

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

Love, End, Equal

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

Everyone, Vegetarian, Walls

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

Wanted, Minds, Fat

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

Saying, Used, Anyone

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

Down, Said, Write

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

Money, Car, Yourself

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

Simple, Down, Write

I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.
Paul McCartney

Leader, Older, Definitely

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

Time, Him, Jesus

I don't ever try to make a serious social comment.
Paul McCartney

Try, Serious, Social

Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Paul McCartney

Why, Says, Sign

I don't work at being ordinary.
Paul McCartney

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

Knew, Four, Anyway

When I sit down to write a song, it's a kind of improvisation, but I formalize it a bit to get it into the studio, and when I step up to a microphone, I have a vague idea of what I'm about to do.
Paul McCartney

Down, Write, Idea

I've got to admit it's getting better. It's a little better all the time.
Paul McCartney

Time, Getting, Admit

Think globally, act locally.
Paul McCartney

Act, Locally, Globally

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun.
Paul McCartney

Fun, Actually, Quite

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

Life, Time, End

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

Job, Trying, Said

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

Music, Nothing, Room

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

Down, Happen, Trying

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

Rock, Long, Words

George wrote Taxman, and I played guitar on it. He wrote it in anger at finding out what the taxman did. He had never known before then what could happen to your money.
Paul McCartney

Money, Anger, Happen

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

Forward, Here, Idea

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Nationality: English

Born: June 18, 1942

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