George Harrison Quotes
Quotations and aphorisms by George Harrison:
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
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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.
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Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
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To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view.
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As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
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I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.
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I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.
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I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.
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I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.
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If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion.
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Gossip is the Devil's radio.
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Love one another.
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They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.
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I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'
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I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.
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I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.
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I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
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The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
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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.
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If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers.
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In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.
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With our love, we could save the world.
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I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the first time we used it. Now, Paul has just asked me recently whether I'd written any more of those 'Indian type of tunes.' He suddenly likes them now. But at the time, he wouldn't play on them.
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America has everything, why should they want us.
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You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
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I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.
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I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.
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Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them 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, and 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.
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Hippies are so phoney and fake.
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The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
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If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.
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The Beatles will exist without us.
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If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.
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When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
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The Beatles will go on and on.
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People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.
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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.
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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.
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Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.
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The Beatles exist apart from myself. 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.
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All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
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The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
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It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
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As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
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Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.
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We were the Spice Boys.
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I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
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Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there.
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The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
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