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Paul McCartney

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

Sir James Paul McCartney, MBE (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record and film producer, poet, painter, and animal rights and peace activist. He became famous as a founding member of The Beatles and Wings.

Quotes

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.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • We probably seem to be anti-religious...none of us believes in God.
    • Hit Parader (January 1970)
  • 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
  • I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.
    • Of arranging, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 175
  • 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. 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
  • 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)
  • I tend not to say much on the phone now. If I leave a message, it's benign. You edit yourself according to the new circumstances of the new world. I think it would be quite good to get some sort of laws.
    • Discussing phone hacking [1]
  • I'd like to be able to go on holiday and not to have to hold my belly in for two whole weeks.
    • Of his fear that paparazzi would take unflattering photos [2]

Lyrics

The Beatles

Songs credited to Lennon–McCartney:

  • 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)
  • 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?
  • 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.

Wings

  • 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.
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