In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
Close your eyes and I’ll kiss you, Tomorrow I’ll miss you.
If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
A hundred years from now, people will listen to the music of the Beatles the same way we listen to Mozart.
I meet so many people that just sort of say, “I want to thank you for your music. It really helped me” or “It changed my life.”
I don’t work at being ordinary.
There are only four people who knew what the Beatles were about anyway.
Songs have some kind of structure that connects with people’s hearts.
I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.
Nothing pleases me more than to go into a room and come out with a piece of music.
When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
You can judge a man’s true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.
What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.
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 never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John’s death.
It was Elvis who really got me hooked on beat music. When I heard ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ I thought, this is it.
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard.
Why would I retire? Sit at home and watch TV? No thanks. I’d rather be out playing.
The interesting thing about the Beatles was: The music was one thing, but we kind of symbolized a certain kind of freedom at a time when people of our generation were just growing up and just becoming adults.
Paul’s last words to Linda: “You’re up on your? beautiful Appaloosa stallion. It’s a fine spring day. We’re riding through the woods. The bluebells are all out, and the sky is clear-blue”.