Paul McCartney Quotes

Music is like a psychiatrist. You can tell your guitar things that you can't tell people. And it will answer you with things people can't tell you.

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.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play Now I need a place to hide away. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

One of the things I always thought was the secret of The Beatles was that our music was self-taught. We were never consciously thinking of what we were doing. Anything we did came naturally. A breathtaking chord change wouldn't happen because we knew how that chord related to another chord. We weren't able to read music or write it down, so we just made it up. My dad was exactly the same. And there's a certain joy that comes into your stuff if you didn't mean it, if you didn't try to make it happen and it happens of its own accord. There's a certain magic about that. So much of what we did came from a deep sense of wonder rather than study. We didn't really study music at all.

Obladi oblada life goes on bra Lala how the life goes on

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 of themselves.

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

And in the end

Lady Madonna lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head.

If You can play Your stuff in a pub, then You´re a good band.

Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they're here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday.

And when the night is cloudy, there is still a light that shines on me. Shine until tomorrow, let it be

You were only waiting for this moment to be free.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

I don't care too much for money,
Money can't buy me love