George Harrison Quotes & Sayings
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Famous Quotes By George Harrison
The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute. — George Harrison
I'm grateful to myself and those closest to me me for having given me that non-material base that means I'm a happy man, one who doesn't have to compete or engineer projects he doesn't have his heart in. — 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
As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc. — George Harrison
Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care. — 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
George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover]
'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks. — George Harrison
What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good? — George Harrison
My son looks more like George Harrison than I do. — George Harrison
I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time. — George Harrison
A cloudburst doesn't last all day ... — George Harrison
My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great! — George Harrison
If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea. — George Harrison
What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
All I got to be is be happy. — 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
I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?' — George Harrison
If you're listening, I'm the walrus, too. — George Harrison
The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes. — George Harrison
Most people's reality is an illusion, a great big illusion. You automatically have to succumb to the illusion that 'I am this body'. I am not George. I am not really George. I am this living thing that goes on, always has been, always will be, but at
this time I happen to be in 'this' body. The body has changed; was a baby, was a young man, will
soon be an old man, and I'll be dead. The
physical body will pass but this bit in the middle,
that's the only reality. All the rest is the illusion,
so to say that somebody thinks we are, the ex-
Beatles are removed from reality in their personal concept. It does not have any truth to it just because somebody thinks it. They are the concepts which become layer upon layer of illusion. Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it. Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within. That is the big message — 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
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.' — George Harrison
No truth could ever fear me. — 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'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless. — George Harrison
With our love, we could save the world. — 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
The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. — George Harrison
Heaven and hell is right now ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions. — George Harrison
My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna. — 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
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
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
That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other ... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back
Amen — George Harrison
The world used us as an excuse to go mad. — George Harrison
Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception. — George Harrison
Beware of sadness It can hit you It can hurt you Make you sore and what is more That is not what you are here for. — 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
I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work. — 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
Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun — George Harrison
I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature — 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
There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye. — George Harrison
It's all too much. — George Harrison
The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke. — George Harrison
I wanted to be successful, not famous. — George Harrison
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music. — George Harrison
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. — George Harrison
I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all. — 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
Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world. — George Harrison
I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password. — George Harrison
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you. — George Harrison
The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on. — George Harrison
Everything is Dinky Doo. — George Harrison
I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food. — George Harrison
If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead. — George Harrison
If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there — George Harrison
Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business. — George Harrison
I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar. — George Harrison
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.' — George Harrison
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
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' — George Harrison
If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days. — 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
If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working. — George Harrison
I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life. — George Harrison
Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be. — George Harrison
We were the Spice Boys. — George Harrison
I want to be successful, not famous. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
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
Sometimes I feel like I'm actually on the wrong planet. It's great when I'm in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, 'What the hell am I doing here? — George Harrison
I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls. — George Harrison
I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn. — George Harrison
The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster. — George Harrison
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. — George Harrison
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass. — George Harrison
Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging. — 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
Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows. — George Harrison