George Harrison Quotes

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry.

I find the older one gets the harder it is to keep the weight off, even if one isn't eating very fattening foods. Once, I was able to put foods like those away, and they didn't show up on the bathroom scales the next morning. But that was when I was very physically active, travelling all over the world and burning up more calories.

One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps

what would you call this haircut?"
arthur.

Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

Do what you want to do, And go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you.

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care.

Be
Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what we are here for.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.

Love one another (His last words)

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

We first got marijuana from an older drummer with another group in Liverpool. We didn't actually try it until after we'd been to Hamburg. I remember we smoked it in the band room in a gig in Southport and we all learnt to do the Twist that night, which was popular at the time. We were all seeing if we could do it. Everybody was saying, 'This stuff isn't doing anything.' It was like that old joke where a party is going on and two hippies are up floating on the ceiling, and one is saying to the other, 'This stuff doesn't work, man.'

The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to ... I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'

You don't need a passport and you don't need no visas, you don't need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.

We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street;
if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.

They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George - those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

All I got to be is be happy.

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!

I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.

The Beatles will exist without us.

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.

Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

All things must pass.

It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years.

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.

The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.

My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile.

Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

George: [On getting the M.B.E.]
'After all we did for Great Britain, selling all that corduroy and making it swing, they gave us that bloody old leather medal with wooden string through it. But my initial reaction was, 'Oh, how nice, how nice.' And John's was, 'How nice, how nice.

I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.

Life goes on within you and without you

Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster.

I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.

We were the Spice Boys.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.

Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.

No truth could ever fear me.

We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and on records, it's easy to insulate one's self from the public; that's why I think I wouldn't care to be a television performer, particularly in the States, where TV stardom is so intimate.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Ultimately the love can become so big
that we can love the whole of creation
instead of
'I love this but I don't like that.'

Without looking out of my window
I could know the ways of heaven

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or ... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

With our love, we could save the world.

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it.