Frasi di Paul McCartney

“[Parlando della scelta vegetariana intrapresa con la moglie Linda] Adesso non mangiamo più niente che debba essere ucciso per noi. Ne abbiamo passate tante, negli anni sessanta, con tutta la droga e gli amici che morivano come mosche, e adesso siamo arrivati al punto in cui diamo davvero un grande valore alla vita.”

“Probabilmente dobbiamo sembrare come anti-religiosi… Nessuno di noi crede in Dio.”

“Se fossi morto, sarei stato sicuramente l'ultimo a saperlo.”

“Uno dei miei più bei ricordi di John è quando ci mettevamo a litigare: io non ero d'accordo con lui su qualcosa e finivamo per insultarci a vicenda. Passavano un paio di secondi e poi lui sollevava un po' gli occhiali e diceva "è solo che sono fatto così…". Per me quello era il vero John. In quei rari momenti lo vedevo senza la sua facciata, quell'armatura che io amavo così tanto, esattamente come tutti gli altri. Era un armatura splendida; ma era davvero straordinario quando sollevava la visiera e lasciava intravedere quel John Lennon che aveva paura di rivelare al mondo.”

“Penso che ci sia l'urgenza di fermare la terribile fugacità del tempo. Con la musica, la pittura… cercate di catturare anche un solo attimo maledetto, prego!”

“[Parlando dell'album dei Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band] L'atmosfera dell'album era in sintonia con lo spirito di quel periodo, perché noi stessi eravamo permeati da quello spirito. Non intendevamo fare di tutto per dargli quell'armosfera, semplicemente c'eravamo dentro. E non è stato solo il clima del periodo a influenzarci; ho cercato dei riferimenti che fossero più estremi. L'atmosfera del tempo assomigliava di più ai Move o agli Status Quo o gruppi del genere. Invece oltre a tutto ciò, c'era quello spirito d'avanguardia che penso sia entrato in Pepper. Era decisamente un movimento di popolo. Voglio dire, noi non stavamo cercando di alimentare quel movimento, noi ne eravamo parte, come lo eravamo sempre stati. Ritengo che i Beatles non siano stati i leader di una generazione, ma i suoi portavoce.”

“Era domenica, stavamo mangiando agnello arrosto per pranzo ed era la stagione degli agnelli, con tutti quei meravigliosi agnellini che saltellavano qua e là nel pascolo. Al che abbiamo guardato l'agnello nel piatto, poi di nuovo gli agnellini là fuori e abbiamo pensato: "Stiamo mangiando una di quelle creaturine che sgambettano allegramente qua fuori". La cosa ci stese, e ci siamo detti: "Aspetta un attimo, non vogliamo mica fare una cosa del genere". Eccola qua, la svolta epocale: non abbiamo mai più mangiato carne.”

“[Sui Beatles] Non arriveremo mai al punto di pubblicare delle schifezze, perché sappiamo che la gente le comprerebbe.”

“Close your eyes and I'll kiss you, Tomorrow I'll miss you.”

“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.”

“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.”

“What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.”

“We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.”

“Sadness isn't sadness. It's happiness in a black jacket. Tears are not tears. They're balls of laughter dipped in salt. Death is not death. It's life that's jumped off a tall cliff.”

“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”

“the beatles were always a great band. nothing more nothing less”

“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".”

“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.”

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”

“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…”

“To lead a better life,
I need my love to be here.
Here, making each day of the year”

“Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better.”

“When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.”

“I don't work at being ordinary.”

“Think globally, act locally.”

“When we were kids we always used to say, ‘Okay, whoever dies first, get a message through.’
When John died, I thought, ‘Well, maybe we’ll get a message,’ because I know he knew the deal. I haven’t had a message from John.”

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

“It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?”

“Animation is not just for children - it's also for adults who take drugs.”

“And what's the point of changing when I'm happy as I am?”

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

“For cruelty to animals, vegetarianism is the great thing to get rid of that. For the planet, to prevent depleting the water and the land and everything, it’s a great idea. And I think it’s a great thing for your health, and doctors nowadays agree with that. There are plenty of great books and organizations, so no matter where you are, there is someone to help you. That’s your first step, and I think your second step is just look in the supermarket for good vegetarian food, and I think it’s so much more readily available now.”

“I wasn't really dead.”

“What you do and what you love just becomes a part of you, if you're lucky.”

“And 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.”

“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.”