Linda McCartney quotes

Linda McCartney was an American photographer and animal rights activist, renowned for her portraits of musicians and celebrities. Her work captured intimate moments in the rock music scene, especially throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She also gained fame as a member of the band Wings and was known for her commitment to vegetarianism and philanthropy. Here are 28 of her quotes:

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

I would travel only by horse, if I had the choice.

Linda McCartney

I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

Linda McCartney

We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.

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When I first toured with Wings things that were said about me were true - I did sing out of tune.

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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.

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Cooking for six people every day is like having a cafe.

Linda McCartney

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

But I wanted marriage for myself. I was not calculating about it. I wish I was more calculating.

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I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

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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.

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I won't be having any more kids, though. Four is enough.

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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.

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I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind.

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Our kids haven't any airs about them. I don't like posh kids who don't like dirty dolls or expect a chauffeur every time they go out.

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People are a bit blind. They don't see life. Being a photographer I see life, every inch of it. I'm obsessed with nature and animals and the earth; I find concrete things that distract me. Most people are the opposite... they find life boring, squirrels or sparrows boring, whereas I find them fascinating. It has to do with the way we live. It probably started with religion which leads some people astray. To fight over whose god is better has nothing to do with love or spirituality. Perhaps it's guilt. We are suppressed and spend our time trying to figure out who we are. The most shocking thing I've learned concerns abuse, child abuse, animal abuse, abuse to every living creature. There is a world of little Hitlers out there. Slaughterhouses, vivisection and experimenting on animals for no reason is sick. Luckily younger people are becoming more aware.

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I'm trying to reproduce healthily in a vegetarian way every kind of flesh there is - bacon, smoked salmon, roast meat. We're working on it. A lot of vegetarians complain that my book [Linda McCartney's Home Cooking] is meat-oriented and some of the products look like meat. For me, though, it's a matter of not just preaching - I hate to do it and it doesn't work - but helping to make the alternatives more attractive to more people. Change the eating habits and maybe you change the thinking habits. ... I'm convinced that part of the reason the world is so sick is that so many people eat flesh. What are you doing but eating a slab of fear? ... Look how long it took to abolish slavery. There was a time when much of the "civilized" world thought it was acceptable. And then they saw that it was wrong. I think the same thing will happen with eating animals. I have faith that the day will come when the world looks back and says, "How could we have done that?"

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I would like them all to enjoy life and try different things until there is something they really like.

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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.

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He is a terrible planner, though. So am I.

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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

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.

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