460 Quotes by Paul McCartney

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

I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn’t realize I’d taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what it was. It didn’t do anything for me, which was lucky because I wouldn’t have fancied heading down that road.

As far as art’s concerned, I probably like modern art more than traditional art.

George Martin, he’s very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement.

You’re always looking at last year, or 10 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.

For you know that it’s a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

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.

I’m not a great practiser at all. We were never great practisers. The Beatles would come together for about a day before we had a tour, to make sure the amp worked.

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.