Quotes By Paul McCartney

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

I don't work at being ordinary.

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.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

Microphones are just like people, if you shout at them, they get scared.

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.

She is the rock 'n' roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it's gonna be the Beatles.

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

It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.

If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.

Lyricists play with words.

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

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

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

I like the idea that people hear my stuff, and if it's commercially successful, that's a good sign that it's being heard.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous.

Love is all you need.

When we were starting off as kids, just the idea of maybe going to do this as a living instead of getting what we thought was going to be a boring job, was exciting.

I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.

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.

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.

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.

I can take pot or leave it. I got busted in Japan for it. I was nine days without it and there wasn't a hint of withdrawal, nothing.

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 rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

My so-called career is a haphazard thing.

I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

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.

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

But with writers, there's nothing wrong with melancholy. It's an important color in writing.