These are all the quotes about John and Paul that I found on tumblr, unfortunately not all credits were kept with each quote... borrowed from tumblr : goddamnthebeatles
"I spoke to Paul about this night many years later, and he confirmed that he and George had been shaken rigid when they found out we were up on the roof. They knew John was having a what you might call a bad trip. John didn't go back to Weybridge that night; Paul took him home to his place, in nearby Cavendish Road. They were intensely close, remember, and Paul would do almost anything for John. So, once they were safe inside, Paul took a tablet of LSD for the first time, 'So I could get with John' as he put it- be with him in his misery and fear." - George Martin
"There was a deeper love there that neither of us could admit to." - Paul McCartney
"On March 12, Paul married Linda Eastman at Marylebone Register Office in London, amid scenes of hysterical grief from his female fans. None of the other Beatles was present. The news reached John as he and Yoko were driving down to visit Aunt Mimi in Poole. Yoko's divorce decree had become final a few weeks earlier, and, in a resurgence of Beatle copycat, John told her they, too, must get married as soon as possible." - Philip Norman, John Lennon: The life
"Paul was the first love of my life, Yoko was the second." - John Lennon
"They (John and Paul) told me that they considered each other, at that time, such an integral part of each other's influences that they were in some ethereal way writing songs together though apart." - Ken Mansfield
"And, in the same respect, the creativity of songwriting had left Paul and me... well, by the mid-Sixties it had become a craft. And yet...a different kind of thing comes in. It's like a love affair. When you first meet, you can have the hots for twenty-four hours a day for each other. But after fifteen or twenty years, a different kind of sexual and intellectual relationship develops, right? It's still love, but it's different. So there's that kind of difference in creativity, too. As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening". - John Lennon
"If you want to say someone you love them, tell them now! Because there may come a point when it's too late and you'd think "I wish I'd say that" - Paul McCartney
"But you've got to remember, John and I knew each other when we were teenagers. We listened to the same records. We grew up to those records. We wore the same clothes. We admired the same kind of people. We had the same tastes. That informed the whole business. John and I were like twins. To find someone like that is pretty impossible. And hey, we were also damn good. We just got it on. We were hot. You can't replace someone like John, and I don't think he could've replaced someone like me." - Paul McCartney
"I remember being shocked one day when John started worrying about how people would remember him when he was gone. It was an incredibly vulnerable thing for him to come out with. I said to him then, 'They'll remember you as a fucking genius because that's what you are. But you won't give a shit because you'll be up there flying across the universe'." - Paul McCartney
"In fact, after he died, the thing that helped me the most, really, was talking to Yoko about it. She volunteered the information that he had... really liked me. She said that once or twice, they had sat down to listen to my records and he had said, 'There you are." - Paul McCartney.
"I just saw a girl who said she saw John Lennon walking down the street in New York wearing a button that said, "I love Paul." She asked him: "Why are you wearing an 'I love Paul' button?", and he said: "Because I love Paul." - Harry Nilsson
"You remember little things about people. I remember sort of seeing him and he comes in and gives me a hug and says 'touching is good.' I'll never forget that. Touching is good. So I do a lot of hugging now". - Paul McCartney
"Most people stayed up late and got drunk with him and thought they were seeing John. You never saw John! Only through a few chinks in his armour did I ever see him because the armour was so tough. John was always on the surface tough, tough, tough.' There were contradictions in Paul's partner that gave him away, however. 'He didn't like many musicals, although he enjoyed West Side Story. Yet one of his favourite songs was "Girl of My Dreams". And he loved "Little White Lies". He also went on to write the lullaby 'Goodnight,' which Ringo sang. That side of John he'd never dare show, except in very rare moments." - Paul McCartney
"(...) From chance remarks he had made, she gathered there had even been a moment when – on the principle that bohemians should try everything – he had contemplated an affair with Paul, but had been deterred by Paul's immovable heterosexuality. Nor, apparently was Yoko the only one to have picked up on this. Around Apple, in her hearing, Paul would sometimes be called John's Princess. She had also once heard a rehearsal tape with John's voice calling out "Paul ... Paul ...' in a strangely subservient, pleading way. "I knew there was something going on there,' she remembers. "From his point of view, not from Paul's. And he was so angry at Paul, I couldn't help wondering what it was really about." ~ From Philip Norman's biography about John Lennon
"I understood what happened when he met Yoko. He had to clear the decks of his old emotions. He went through all his old affairs, confessed them all. Me and Linda did that when we first met. You prove how much you love someone by confessing all that old stuff. John's method was to slag me off" – Paul McCartney
'And it's sad, it's emotional. There's a song I do called Here Today which is specifically written for John and that sometimes catches me out. It catches me out in this film version where I realise I'm telling this man that I love him ... I'm publicly declaring this in front of all these people I don't know. 'It's a good thing to do. I couldn't have done it when I was 18 because I would not have allowed myself to cry or go anywhere near that ... Now it's OK. I'm used to it." - Paul McCartney
"John never looked at anyone the way he looked at Paul." - Cynthia Powell
"I thought John was cheating on me with Paul" - Yoko Ono
"I was just the same as everyone else Harry, I fell for Paul's looks." - John Lennon to Harry Nilsson.
"The thing you must remember is that I'm the number one john Lennon fan. I love him to this day and i always did love him." - Paul Mccartney
"John and I went to Paris on birthday money he received from a relative. He must have been fond of me to spend that money. He let me have all the banana milkshakes I wanted. - Paul McCartney
"Contrary to popular belief, McCartney wore a rose in his headset not to go along with the theme of the performance, but to spite Lennon, with whom he spoke prior to the show. Lennon insisted that McCartney wear green. After getting his way, McCartney went looking around the studio for something red until he eventually came across a vase of roses outside George Harrison's dressing room." - Unknow"
'Paul talk[ing] a lot about the fabs, and how John had always been the one of them to wear his heart on his sleeve'" -An old friend of Paul's remembers the Christmas of 1980."When John wasn't there I'd pick up his guitar and play it upside down, he did that with my guitar as well, he good pretty good playing upside down because of me" - Paul McCartney
"Paul's (voice) was sweeter, but John gave the combination its interest and sharpness. He was the lemon juice against the virgin olive oil." - George Martin
"I want the world to know that it was a very touching thing that he did for John. He'd heard the rumours that John was in a bad way, in a rough situation, and he was genuinely concerned about his old partner... But Paul and Linda were genuinely worried for him, and it was so sweet that he wanted to save John. I want people to know how kind and sensitive he was to him. Sure they were two macho, very talented guys, who had strong opinions, arguments, like most brothers. But when it came to the crux of the matter, when Paul thought John was in dire straits, he helped. Even though John was not even asking for help — John, Paul, all of them were too proud to ask anything — he helped. John often said he didn't understand why Paul did this for us, but he did". - Yoko Ono, 2010
"That became a very big bond between John and me, because he lost his mum early on, too. We both had this emotional turmoil which we had to deal with and, being teenagers, we had to deal with it very quickly. We both understood that something had happened that you couldn't talk about - but we could laugh about it, because each of us had gone through it. It wasn't OK for anyone else. We could both laugh at death - but only on the surface. John went through hell, but young people don't show grief - they'd rather not. Occasionally, once or twice in later years, it would hit in. We'd be sitting around and we'd have a cry together; not often, but it was good." - Paul McCartney
"When I'm not sure about something, I 'wonder' to John across the room. And he says: "You can't do that, man." And I reply: "You're right, how about this?". "Yes, that's better." We chatted. I never want to miss it." - Paul McCartney, when he revealed to Rolling Stone magazine that talks with John Lennon when composing his songs.
"John is a central figure in my life. I will always be grateful for having so much intimate time with him. The more distant his stuff becomes, the greater he seems. I used to do caricatures of John. He was the only person I knew with an aquiline nose. When I painted him recently, I found myself saying: 'How did his lips go? I can't remember.' Then I would think: 'Of course you know, you wrote all those songs facing each other.' " - Paul McCartney
"John and I used to hitch-hike places together, it was something that we did together quite a lot; cementing our friendship, getting to know our feelings, our dreams, our ambitions together. It was a very wonderful period. I look back on it with great fondness. I particularly remember John and I would be squeezed in our little single bed, and Mike Robbins, who was a real nice guy, would come in late at night to say good night to us, switching off the lights as we were all going to bed." - Paul McCartney
"I was kind of crying when I wrote 'Here Today'. It's like a dialogue with John. One of my feelings even when he used to lay into me was that he really didn't mean it. I could always see why he was doing it. There was this spectre of me, which I understand because he had to clear the decks just like I did. In the song, John would hear me saying that and say 'Oh, piss off, you don't know me at all. We're worlds apart. You used to know me but I've changed.' But I felt I still knew him. The song is me trying to talk back to him, but realizing the futility of it because he is no longer here, even though that's a fact I can't quite believe, even to this day. The 'I love you' part was hard to say . A part of me said, 'Hold on. Wait a minute. Are you really going to do that?' I finally said, 'Yeah, I've got to. It's true." - Paul McCartney
"We'd often get in the little glass-panelled porch on the front door looking out onto the front garden and Menlove Avenue. There was a good acoustic there, like a bathroom acoustic, and also it was the only place Mimi would let us make noise. We were relegated to the vestibule. I remember singing 'Blue Moon' in there, the Elvis version, trying to figure out the chords. We spent a lot of time like that. Then we'd go up to John's room and we'd sit on the bed and play records, Fats Domino, Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry. It's a wonderful memory. I don't often get nostalgic, but the memory of sitting listening to records in John's bedroom is so lovely, a nice nostalgic feeling, because I realise just how close I was to John. It's a lovely thought to think of a friend's bedroom then. A young boy's bedroom is such a comfortable place, like my son's bedroom is now; he's got all his stuff that he needs: a candle, a guitar, a book. John's room was very like that. James reminds me very much of John in many ways: he's got beautiful hands. John had beautiful hands." - Paul McCartney
"They're like a old married couple with their kids." - Ringo Starr
"They needed each other like mad." - George Martin
"Sir Paul was asked if Lennon were alive, which McCartney song he would like him to play. He said: "Maybe I'm Amazed came into my mind. That would be interesting to hear him sing that." Asked if he had to choose a song to be remembered by, Sir Paul said: "Your songs are like your babies, you don't want to have a favourite. "But Maybe I'm Amazed - 'cos John's got to sing it." - Paul McCartney, 2009.
"John and Paul embark on the subtly harmonized duet that constitutes the body of the song. From the moment Paul's voice joins John's on the stately, rising melody, the whole tenor of the track changes. Their two parts do not move in simple parallel motion like a couple holding hands.... instead their voices perform an intricate courtship dance, ranging from a sixth to a third apart, alternately closing and widening the distance between them. If I Fell is a love song that seeks to move beyond the shaky ground of infatuation.... beyond the very idea of falling (like the chords in the introduction) in love. By the last verse, the music sounds like a hymn, the singing, an exchange of vows." - Johathan Gould
"And we looked into each other's eyes, the eye contact thing we used to do, which is fairly mind-boggling. You dissolve into each other (...) you would want to look away, but you wouldn't, and you could see yourself in the other person" - Paul Mccartney
"Well, no. How can you be surprised by your own brother?" -John Lennon (when asked if he was surprised about Paul's success post-Beatles)"Paul's bass playing is underrated. Paul was one of the most innovative bass players ever. And half the stuff that is going on now is directly ripped off from his Beatles period. He is an egomaniac about everything else about himself, but his bass playing he was always a bit coy about." ~ John Lennon interview Playboy.
"The tape throws great light on the Nerk Twins chemistry. When Paul is singing "A Taste Of Honey", John suddenly shouts "SHUT UP Talking!" to someone in the audience, interrupting Paul much more than the chatterbox. Paul knows this, and is pitched into laughter. When he sings "Till There Was You", John, - just a beat behind - speaks most of the lines in a persistent piss-taking echo: 'No I never heard them at all', ('No, he never heard them.'). Paul chuckles and ploughs on; he can't stop it, and he's not even necessarily cross about it - he knows it'll happen because this is John, and John is his fairground hero. It's part of the double-act: the audience try to watch the singer but can't tear their eyes off his mate , who's probably also pulling crips. John couldn't do this to anyone else without risking a thump. Paul wouldn't accept it from anyone else; Paul gets to sing his song, John gets to undermine him. I's just one facet of the complex sibling relationship they've always , one among so many reasons they're special together." - Mark Lewisohn on The Beatles Star Club tapes.
"PAUL: If I'm going to see a face in a painting it's highly likely to be John's. Q: Do you think of him during the day or did this come, is this an unusual thing? PAUL: I think of John a lot. Yeah. Because we were such good friends for so long. I also used to do little caricatures of his, him. It was quite easy to draw, this long aquiline nose and the sort of glasses and he used to have big sideburns, as you call them. Sideboards is what we call 'em. Um, so I used to draw him quite a bit. When we were just sitting around I'd do caricatures." – Unknown
"One night he was so drunk that I had to drag him away from the pub and bring him in a park to vomit. When he finished, he was upset so we sat on a bench. Still drunk and hesitant, he pointed his finger at a star straight above our heads and he said: "That is the star my mother dedicated to me and it has always been mine. But from now on it will be yours too, if you want. It's name is Mary Julia and every time you will look at it in any situation, any moment, you will know that I'm there near to you and laughing about how queer you are. I will always be there, I promise, I will look at you from Mary Julia. And even the contrary because it's our star, just ours, a star that belongs to two idiots that strum and that every night lie on a bench full of alcohol." I was flabbergasted and together we started to laugh. Some years later I looked at that star and I cried for a whole night. His laugh near me wasn't enough to make me stop. But I realised that he kept his promise and it was beautiful." - Paul McCartney
"I'd go through it all again and have him slagging me off again just because he was so great; those are all the down moments. There was so much more pleasure than has really come out. I had a wonderful time, with one of the world's most talented people. - Paul McCartney.
"People always assumed that John was the hard-edged one and I was the soft-edged one, so much so that over the years I've come to accept that. But Linda said, 'You've got a hard edge, it's just not on the surface. I know, living with you all the time.' It's true, I can bite, I certainly have a hard side, and she said, 'And John had a very soft side, too.' . I often used to boss him round, and he must have appreciated the hard side in me or it wouldn't have worked; conversely, I very much appreciated the soft side in him. It was a four-cornered thing rather than two-cornered, it had diagonals and my hard side could talk to John's hard side when it was necessary, and our soft edges talked to each other. " - Paul McCartney
"I was just really sad, y'know, cos we loved each other, although you wouldn't have called it that then." - Paul McCartney
"John Lennon's last words about Paul McCartney only a few hours before his death: Cutting through the traffic John discusses his relationship with Paul McCartney. Sholin says: "He says, 'Well he's like a brother. I love him. Families... we certainly have our ups and downs and our quarrels. But at the end of the day when it's all said and done I would do anything for him, I think he would do anything for me" (Probably from his last interview for Rolling Stone Magazine)
"To Lennon, Paul was "cute, and didn't know it," a born performer who was also a "thruster" and an "operator" behind the scenes." - Christopher Sandford, Paul McCartney, 2005
"John might sing about being a working-class hero but he was nothing of the sort. The rest of us knew nobody called Harriet." We talked a bit about John. "I did love him," he (Paul) said, suddenly, "and I know he loved me." - Maureen Cleave
"I talked to Yoko the day after John was killed and the first thing she said was, 'John was really fond of you, you know.' It was almost as if she sensed that I was wondering whether he had... whether the relationship had snapped. I believe it was always there. I believe he really was fond of me, as she said. We were really the best of mates. It was really ace." - Paul McCartney
"I copped money for Family Way, the film music that Paul wrote while I was out of the country making How I Won the War," said Lennon, laughing. "I said to Paul, 'You'd better keep that', and he said, 'Don't be soft.' It's the concept. We inspired each other so much in the early days. We write how we write now because of each other. Paul was there for five or ten years, and I wouldn't write like I write now if it weren't for Paul, and he wouldn't write like he does if it weren't for me." - John Lennon
"It was like a tug of war. Imagine two people pulling on a rope, smiling at each other and pulling all the time with all their might. The tension between the two of them made for the bond." – George Martin
"This was written out at John's house in Weybridge for Ringo... I think that was probably the best of our songs that we wrote for Ringo actually. I remember giggling with John as we wrote the lines, 'What do you see when you turn out the light/ I can't tell you but I know it's mine.' It could have been him playing with his willie under the covers, or it could have been taken on a deeper level. This is what it meant but it was a nice way to say it— a very non-specific way to say it. I always liked that" - Paul McCartney, 1994 On writing "With a Little Help From My Friends"
"Around midnight, a Cinderella moment in the empty studio when the gear was being stowed, he turned to Linda and one or two friends and told them that it reminded him of the famously trippy session for "All you need is love". 'It was that same vibe. I just looked around and there were all these flowers and happy faces smiling up at me.' Another sip or two, and he began murmuring huskily, "John.... John....." - Paul during a late night recording session in late 1980. (from the book: McCartney by: Christopher Sandford)
"LINDA: I was just going to say that I think if John had lived, he might still be saying, "OH, I'm much happier now... ." PLAYBOY: And you don't believe it? LINDA: The sad thing is that John and Paul both had problems and they loved each other and, boy, could they have helped each other! If they had only communicated! It frustrates me no end, because I was just some chick from New York when I walked into all of that. God, if I'd known what I know now... . All I could do was sit there watching them play these games... ." -Linda McCartney, From Playboy, 1984"
"I think they were all feeling a little paranoid. When you have a rift between people -if you go to a party and the husband and wife have been having a row - there's a tension, an atmosphere. And you wonder whether you are making things worse by being there. I think that was kind of the situation we found with Ringo. He was probably feeling a little bit odd because of the mental strangeness with John and Yoko and Paul..." -George Martin
"I heard it, and I was very emotional. I thought, 'Ooh yeah. That's my boy, Johnny. I love-' of course I loved him, you know. And I spoke to Ringo on the phone and I sort of said, 'Listen, you better keep your hankie handy you know, because it's pretty emotional when you hear it.' But he was lovely; he rang back saying, 'I think we can do this; it would be a joyous occasion.' ...So that's what we did. It was really joyous to work on, and George put a great solo on that just finished it off." - Paul McCartney, On the first time he listened to the song "Free As A Bird"
"Whatever bad things John said about me, he would also slip his glasses down to the end of his nose and say: I love you." - Paul McCartney
"After a late lunch, Linda launched into a long paean to the joys of living in England. When she was finished, she turned to John and said "Don't you miss England?", - "Frankly", John replied, "I miss Paris." - May Pang, Loving John
"John had beautiful hands" - Paul McCartney
"I spent hours at the apartment and the studio talking to John about the changes since Los Angeles. He felt at peace for one of the few times in his life. He was deeply in love with Yoko and thrilled to be a father again. He also spoke with affection about the Beatles days and how much he still looked forward to seeing Paul. That surprised me because of the sarcastic barbs he'd launched in interviews and the biting lyrics he'd written about Paul since the breakup of the band. "Aw, don't believe all that," he said, smiling. "Paul is like a brother. We've gotten way past all that." " - Robert Hilburn (journalist), Corn Flakes with John Lennon: And Other Tales from a Rock 'n' Roll Life. (2009)
"Certainly McCartney lacked Lennon's knack for separating his personal and professional lives. Lennon was proclaiming that he had finally rediscovered himself. 'I got lost in the Beatles, and now it's John Lennon again... So whatever I'm doing as Beatles, Yoko's sitting on my shoulder like a parrot." But McCartney believed in himself as a Beatle, first and foremost, and an equal partner with Lennon, and he understandably felt each assault from his colleague as a thrust to the heart. Gill Pritchard, one of the so called Apple Scruffs, remembered the night when 'Paul came racing out of the front door of the recording studio in tears, went home and didn't come back'." - Peter Doggett, (You Never Give Me Your Money).
"I always find myself wanting to excuse John's behaviour, just because I loved him. It's like a child, sure he's a naughty child, but don't you call my child naughty. Even if it's me he's shitting on, don't you call him naughty." - Paul McCartney
"The thing you must remember is that I'm the Number One John Lennon fan. I love him to this day and I always did love him" -Paul McCartney
"I'm the only person who is allowed to say nasty things about Paul. I don't like it when other people do so." - John Lennon