Paul McCartney

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In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.
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.

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is a British rock musician, song-writer and composer, who became famous as a member of The Beatles.

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  • Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
    Now it looks as though they're here to stay.
    Oh, I believe in yesterday.
  • Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
    I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday.
    • "Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
  • Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
    Now I need a place to hide away.
    Oh, I believe in yesterday.
    • "Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
  • She's lovely, great. She was very friendly. She was just like a mum to us.
    • About Queen Elizabeth II, in an interview after the Beatles received their MBEs from her (26 October 1965)
  • I want her everywhere
    and if she's beside me I know I need never care.
    But to love her is to need her

    Everywhere, knowing that love is to share
    each one believing that love never dies
    watching her eyes and hoping I'm always there.

    • "Here, There and Everywhere" (1966)
  • Will you still need me,
    will you still feed me,
    when I'm sixty-four?
    • "When I'm Sixty-Four" from Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967)
  • Hey Jude, don't make it bad
    Take a sad song and make it better.
    Remember to let her into your heart
    Then you can start to make it better.
  • And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
    • "The End"; The last full song track of Abbey Road (1969) the last Beatles album to be recorded before the band broke up. (Let It Be was the last album released, but had been recorded earlier.)
  • 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.
  • I thought the only lonely place was on the moon.
  • You'd think that people would have had enough of silly love songs
    I look around me and I see it isn't so
    Some people want to fill the world with silly love songs
    And what's wrong with that?
    I'd like to know
    'Cause here I go again...
    I love you.
    • "Silly Love Songs", 1976
  • We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
    • On the Beatles' early expectations of their success (2007 interview with Larry King)
I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
  • 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.
    • The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 96
  • We're constantly being asked all sorts of very profound questions. But we're not very profound people. People say, 'What do you think of the H-bomb, of religion, of fan worship?' But we didn't really start thinking about these things until people asked us. And even then we didn't get much time to consider them. What do I think of the H-bomb? Well, here's an answer with the full weight of five O levels and one A level behind it: I don't agree with it.
    • The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 109
  • 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.
    • The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 114
  • 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.
    • The Beatles Anthology (2000)

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  • 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
  • I am alive and well and unconcerned about the rumors of my death. But if I were dead, I would be the last to know.
  • 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.
  • I now realize that taking drugs was like taking an aspirin without having a headache.
  • 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.
  • I have no problem with bootlegs, although every time I say that, my lawyer says, "Oh yes you do."
  • It [LSD] opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.
  • It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard "Heartbreak Hotel" I thought, this is it.
  • She's absolutely gorgeous. Heather and I are having a wonderful time. I could go on for hours and drag the photographs out, but I'd never get back to the studio.
    • about his daughter, Beatrice McCartney
  • 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".
  • We did it this way because both John and I had a number of songs which were great as they were but which we'd never finished.
  • We don't eat anything that has to be killed for us. We've been through a lot and we've reached a stage where we really value life.
  • We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
    • Hit Parader, January 1970
  • Dear Mailbag,
    In order to put out of its misery the limping dog of a news story which has been dragging itself across your pages for the past year, my answer to the question "will the Beatles get together again... is no.
    - Paul McCartney.
    • Letter to New Musical Express magazine

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