Quotes By Paul Mccartney

Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical.

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

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

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think, 'Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me.' It's a very common thing.

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

Take these broken wings and learn to fly.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.

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

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.

A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.

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

There's nothing as glamorous to me as a record store.

When you're wide awake say it for goodness sake, it's gonna be a great day.

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.