George Harrison Quotes

Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape. ~ George Harrison

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines, or a guitar string; as I walked into the room, he lovingly placed the bundle on his head. ~ Alan Goldsher

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. ~ George Harrison

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

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

Life goes on within you and without you ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

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

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

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

If you had a successful TV show, people wanted to see you live. Promoters had had practice with pop groups, and 'Python' achieved a similar status. We also had lots of rock star fans - George Harrison, Pink Floyd, Robert Plant. Promoters saw that and liked it. ~ Michael Palin

Well, the first reaction was, What smoke? When I looked and saw it, and we all ran to the back where we were far away from the flames-cowards as we are, you know-all sat around the emergency door and even tested the emergency door, ready to jump out. Of course, I said, Beatles and children first. ~ Larry Kane

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. ~ George Harrison

There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going. ~ George Harrison

I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen. ~ John Lennon

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

The first one I actually met was George Harrison. ~ Pete Best

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. ~ George Harrison

Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed. ~ George Harrison

'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock. ~ Chris Cornell

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. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

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

The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It's like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit. ~ George Harrison

I've been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don't feel like talking. ~ George Harrison

I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense. ~ Billy Boyd

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday. ~ George Harrison

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

Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle. ~ George Harrison

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

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

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do. ~ George Harrison

I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes. ~ George Harrison

Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written. ~ Andrew Rosenthal

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was. ~ Robyn Hitchcock

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright. ~ George Harrison

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

I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John. ~ Brian Wilson

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

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

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

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. ~ George Harrison

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love ~ George Harrison

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

All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much. ~ George Harrison

Gossip is the Devil's radio. ~ George Harrison

Estimated height in feet of a memorial tree planted for George Harrison that died in July after an attack by beetles : 15 ~ Anonymous

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. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

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

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem. ~ George Harrison

I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way. ~ Ravi Shankar

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. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

George Harrison was a fabulous, fabulous, fabulous guitarist, and a wonderful example of what a rock star should be. I totally revered him as an innovator. He was always fresh, daring, magnificently melodic, full of spiritual quality, and totally conscious of the chord structure beneath the solo. And he had the courage to play simple. He never took refuge in effects, or tried to impress with speed. I hope he knew how much we all loved and respected him. ~ Brian May

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

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there. ~ George Harrison

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature ~ George Harrison

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

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! ~ George Harrison

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

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. ~ George Harrison

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

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. ~ George Harrison

The Beatles will go on and on. ~ George Harrison

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India. ~ Gary Wright

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years. ~ George Harrison

If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead. ~ George Harrison

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion. ~ George Harrison

No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character. ~ George Harrison

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome. ~ George Harrison

Dylan's friend Linus Millberg appears out of the crowd with a cup of beer and shouts, 'Dorothy is John Lennon, the Scarecrow is Paul McCartney, the Tin Woodman is George Harrison, the Lion's Ringo.'
'Star Trek,' commands Dylan over the lousy twangy country CB's is playing between sets.
'Easy,' Linus shouts back. "Kirk's John, Spock's Paul, Bones is George, Scotty is Ringo. Or Chekov, after the first season. Doesn't matter, it's like a Scotty-Chekov-combination Ringo. Spare parts are always surplus Georges or Ringos.'
'But isn't Spock-lacks-a-heart and McCoy-lacks-a-brain like Woodman and Scarecrow? So Dorothy's Kirk?'
'You don't get it. That's just a superficial coincidence. The Beatle thing is an archetype, it's like the basic human formation. Everything naturally forms into a Beatles, people can't help it.'
'Say the types again.'
'Responsible-parent genius-parent genius-child clown-child.'
'Okay, do Star Wars.'
'Luke Paul, Han Solo John, Chewbacca George, the robots Ringo.'
'Tonight Show.'
'Uh, Johnny Carson Paul, the guest John, Ed McMahon Ringo, whatisname George.'
'Doc Severinson.'
'Yeah, right. See, everything revolves around John, even Paul. That's why John's the guest.'
'And Severinson's quiet but talented, like a Wookie.'
'You begin to understand. ~ Jonathan Lethem

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. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

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

She bought a poster of the Beatles and tacked it on the wall above her bed. On days when she was feeling strong her favorite was John, and on days when she was feeling weak her favorite was George, perhaps because there was a vulnerability to John that she was afraid to indulge without an armor of her own vitality around her. ~ Kevin Brockmeier

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. ~ George Harrison

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing. ~ George Harrison

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do' ~ Dhani Harrison

As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead. ~ George Harrison

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. ~ George Harrison

I had never been allowed to go on tour with my husband George Harrison, so had no idea what to expect when I left him to join Eric Clapton on his 1974 U.S. tour. ~ Pattie Boyd

America has everything, why should they want us. ~ George Harrison

Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive. ~ George Harrison

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us. ~ George Harrison

George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy. ~ Alvin Lee

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

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. ~ George Harrison

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

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about ... you have to change. ~ George Harrison