Linda McCartney Quotes


"When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Isolation, London, Wood)

"When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: First)

"I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Life)

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls the whole world would be vegetarian."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: World)

"I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Kids)

"I wasn't looking for another marriage. I had been married before. He is a nice man - a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type. But Paul and I married because of convention."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Marriage, Man)

"I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Drugs, Pretty)

"I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Peace, Fire, Growing up, Open)

"I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Money, Simplicity)

"He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Day, Writing)

"He is a terrible planner, though. So am I."
- Linda McCartney
"Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: People, Cooking, Day)

"We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Want)

"I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Travel, Choice)

"We spent last night listening to Liverpool football team on the radio, wanting them to win so badly. Paul supports Liverpool. He was Everton for a while because of his family - but it's all Liverpool now."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Family, Football, Listening, Night, Now)

"My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Death, Home, Mother, Hate)

"Paul persuaded me to join the band. I would never have had the courage otherwise. It was fun at the beginning. We were playing just for fun, with Paul's group."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Courage, Beginning, Fun)

"We are really on top of one another at the moment and I think it is amazing how we stay so close. Maybe that's the test. Why not totally put yourself together, rather than always wonder whether you actually like each other?"
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Wonder)

"We both came from families in which parents got married, had children and the whole thing. So we were not the kind of people to live together permanently."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: People, Children, Parents)

"We have lasted this long close together, so we must have something going for each other."
- Linda McCartney
"We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Work, Idea, Living, London, Sisters, Weekend, Will)

"We spend so much time together, because that's how we like it. I never used to go on girl's nights out, even at school. And Paul has never liked going out for a night with the boys, either."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Time, Boys, Night, School)

"But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating."
- Linda McCartney
(Related: Marriage)