Paul McCartney Berühmte Zitate
Bravo Nr. 4/1985 vom 17. Januar 1985, S. 15
zu John Lennon, zitiert in: DIE ZEIT, 27. November 2005, zeit.de http://www.zeit.de/online/2005/48/john_lennon_8 <br class="br">The banter between them, joking but with serious undertones, continued during that evening. Paul said, 'You're bad for my image!' John retorted, 'You're soft. Shurrup and watch the telly like a good boy.' - Ray Coleman: Lennon. McGraw-Hill, 1985. p. 200
Paul McCartney: Zitate auf Englisch
“If slaughterhouses had glass walls, we would all be vegetarian.”
Variante: If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
“We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.”
On the Beatles' early expectations of their success (2007 interview with Larry King)
"Silly Love Songs", 1976
Lyrics, Wings
Kontext: 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.
“Take these broken wings and learn to fly.”
Quelle: Blackbird Singing: Poems and Lyrics, 1965-1999
I had barely got to the end of the sentence when she closed her eyes and gently slipped away. She was unique, and the world is a better place for having known her. I love you, Linda. note: Last words to his wife, Linda, as recounted by McCartney in a statement released to the press three days after her death <br class="br">Quelle: as quoted in "Linda's Death 'Heartbreak' for McCartney" https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=99480655 by Emma Ross, Tucson Citizen (April 21, 1998), p. B1
The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 212
"The Chris Farley Show" sketch on Saturday Night Live, regarding the Paul is Dead hoax.
“To lead a better life,
I need my love to be here.
Here, making each day of the year”
"Here, There and Everywhere" form Revolver (1966) - Full lyrics at Songfacts.com http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=105 <br class="br">Lyrics, The Beatles <br class="br">Kontext: To lead a better life,<br>I need my love to be here.<br>Here, making each day of the year,<br>Changing my life with a wave of her hand.<br>Nobody can deny that there's something there.
“Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better.”
"Hey Jude" (1968)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Kontext: 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.
“Obladi oblada life goes on bra
Lala how the life goes on”
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da (1968)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Sir Paul McCartney and PETA VP Dan Mathews Reflect on Two Decades of Activism http://www.peta.org/features/paul-mccartney-interview/ (April 2005)
“What you do and what you love just becomes a part of you, if you're lucky.”
Quelle: Paul McCartney: The Waterstones Interview
December 2021
https://youtu.be/chROemnJfIo?t=2916
“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.)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Quelle: The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics
“Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.”
"Yesterday", from Help! (1965)
Lyrics, The Beatles
Kontext: Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
Now I need a place to hide away.
Oh, I believe in yesterday.
