Paul McCartney: Trending quotes (page 3)

“I really wish the people that look sort of in anger at the 'weirdos,' at the happenings, at the psychedelic freak-out, would instead of just looking with anger, just look with nothing; with no feeling; be unbiased about it. They really don't realize that what these people are talking about is something that they really want themselves. It's something that everyone wants. You know, it's personal freedom to be able to talk and be able to say things And it's dead straight! It's a real sort of basic pleasure for everyone. But it looks weird from the outside.”

Paul McCartney

From the TV show "It's So Far Out It's Straight Down", 18.1.1967

People , Pleasure , Feeling , Freedom

“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

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969), p 107 http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DKG-FXj_HNYC&pg=PA107&lpg=PA107&dq=%22I+think+you+can+put+any+interpretation+you+want+on+anything,+but+when+someone+suggests+that+Can%E2%80%99t+Buy+Me+Love+is+about+a+prostitute,+I+draw+the+line.+That%E2%80%99s+going+too+far.%22&source=bl&ots=dZZ8CWP3RD&sig=72RA2gERz8OtnW7coK4F0ND9sXc&hl=en#v=onepage&q=%22I%20think%20you%20can%20put%20any%20interpretation%20you%20want%20on%20anything%2C%20but%20when%20someone%20suggests%20that%20Can%E2%80%99t%20Buy%20Me%20Love%20is%20about%20a%20prostitute%2C%20I%20draw%20the%20line.%20That%E2%80%99s%20going%20too%20far.%22&f=false

Love , Thinking , Drawing , Personality

“With life and all I've been through, I do have a belief in goodness, a good spirit. I think what people have done with religion is personified good and evil, so good's become God with 'o' out, and evil's become Devil with a 'd' added. That's my theory of religion.”

Paul McCartney

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

Life , God , People , Religion

“Lovely Rita, Meter Maid, nothing could come between us.
When it gets dark I'll tow your heart away”

Paul McCartney

"Lovely Rita" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
Lyrics, The Beatles

Love , Heart

“She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.”

Paul McCartney

About Queen Elizabeth II, in an interview after the Beatles received their MBEs from her (26 October 1965)

Love

“We probably seem to be anti-religious…none of us believes in God.”

Paul McCartney

Hit Parader (January 1970)

God

“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

The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 96

People

“Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.”

Paul McCartney

"Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
Lyrics, The Beatles

“The long and winding road that leads to your door
Will never disappear,
I've seen that road before it always leads me here,
Leads me to your door.”

Paul McCartney

"The Long and Winding Road" from Let It Be (1970)
Lyrics, The Beatles

“While the others had got married and moved out to suburbia, I had stayed in London and got into the arts scene through friends like Robert Fraser and Barry Miles and papers like The International Times.”

Paul McCartney

We opened the Indica gallery with John Dunbar, Peter Asher and people like that. I heard about people like John Cage, and that he’d just performed a piece of music called 4’33” (which is completely silent) during which if someone in the audience coughed he would say, ‘See?’ Or someone would boo and he’d say, ‘See? It’s not silence—it’s music.’ I was intrigued by all of that. So these things started to be part of my life. I was listening to Stockhausen; one piece was all little plink-plonks and interesting ideas. Perhaps our audience wouldn’t mind a bit of change, we thought, and anyway, tough if they do! We only ever followed our own noses—most of the time, anyway. ‘Tomorrow Never Knows’ was one example of developing an idea.
The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 212

Time , Art