Paul McCartney Quotes

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• I support decriminalisation. People are smoking pot anyway and to make them into criminals is wrong. It's when you're in jail you really become a…
• It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
• I think the 'Just say no' mentality is so crazed. I saw a thing in a women's magazine the other day. 'He smokes cannabis, what…
• Out of all those millions and millions of planets floating around there in space, this is our planet, this is our little one, so we…
• ...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
• It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that…
• I did cocaine for about a year around the time of Sgt Pepper. Coke and maybe some grass to balance it out. I was never…
• I tried heroin just the once. Even then, I didn't realize I'd taken it. I was just handed something, smoked it, then found out what…
• The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife.
• The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so…
• When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.
• People think once you get famous and rich you move out of the public sphere and you have nothing left to write about. I've heard…
• 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…
• Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed…
• I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation,…
• I think the French girls are fabulous.
• When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.
• If anyone was the Fifth Beatle, it was Brian [Epstein].
• Personal differences, musical differences, business differences, but most of all because I have a better time with my family.
• Tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun

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