George Harrison Quotes

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.

- George Harrison

Happy, Perfect, Your, How Much Money

I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.

- George Harrison

Think, I Think, Formal, Musician

I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.

- George Harrison

Rock, Star, Rock Star, Musician

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.

- George Harrison

Around, I Write, Lyricist, Musician

At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts.

- George Harrison

Death, Some, Going, Needing

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.

- George Harrison

Beauty, Someplace, Lot, Uptight

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.

- George Harrison

Hypocrite, Better, Than, Outspoken

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.

- George Harrison

Play, Used, I Think, Urged

Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.

- George Harrison

Like, Rap, Use, Amuse

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.

- George Harrison

Someone, Could, Wanted, Collaborate

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.

- George Harrison

Goal, Through, Having, No Point

At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.

- George Harrison

Road, Game, Accepted, Abbey

I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.

- George Harrison

Love, Play, Holiday, Nebraska

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.

- George Harrison

Song, Here, However, Catchy

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.

- George Harrison

Best, I Think, Overpowering, Ringo

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.

- George Harrison

Kind, Go, Used, Blamed

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

Making, Britain, Bit, Tin

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

- George Harrison

Dead, Concerned, Remains, Lennon

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.'

- George Harrison

Thought, Reason, Started, Lennon

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.

- George Harrison

Point Of View, Tell, Musical, Lennon

People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.

- George Harrison

Me, Most, About, Beatle

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.

- George Harrison

Life, My Life, Occasion, Beatle

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

- George Harrison

Always, Making, Been, Beatle

It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.

- George Harrison

Asking, Part, Rooms, Beatle

We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs.

- George Harrison

Week, Were, Clubs, Sixties

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

- George Harrison

Bad, Got, Fed, Vibes

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.

- George Harrison

Flowers, Simple, Grow, Flow

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

- George Harrison

Like, Having, Instance, None

Muhammad Ali was quite cute.

- George Harrison

Cute, Quite, Muhammad, None

The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? ... Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's! That's who it was. I played on one of her albums.

- George Harrison

Best, Singer, Albums, Go-Go

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

- George Harrison

Search, Wait, Else, Everything Else

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

- George Harrison

Leave, Could, Happily, Adulation

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.

- George Harrison

Soup, Buy, Half, Screwing

The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.

- George Harrison

Yourself, Find, Nicest, Open

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

Give, Certainly, Based, Never Stop

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.

- George Harrison

Magic, Some, I Think, Together

I've always played around in my own mind with what a Wilburys tour could be. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go on right from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? It's an intriguing thought.

- George Harrison

Beginning, Thought, Own, Intriguing

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

Too Late, Behind, Away, Between

With our love, we could save the world.

- George Harrison

Love, World, Could, Our Love

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

- George Harrison

Hippies, Phoney, Fake

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.

- George Harrison

Ego, Dead, Fulfilled, As Far As

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

Small, Within, Very, Realize

I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends.

- George Harrison

Never, Current, Keep, Trends

If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.

- George Harrison

Going, Tried, Were, Harder

Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I don't ever write them, because it's only small potatoes compared with the big picture.

- George Harrison

Small, Big, Some, Compared

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.

- George Harrison

Doing, Tell, Point, Greater

Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.

- George Harrison

Street, Because, Were, Favored

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

- George Harrison

Famous, Wanted, Successful

If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.

- George Harrison

World, Here, Were, Beings

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.

- George Harrison

Think, Compete, Having, Promotion

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

- George Harrison

Devil, Radio, Gossip

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

- George Harrison

Birthday, World, Take, Cake

I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

- George Harrison

Fan, Like, Melody, Heavy

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.

- George Harrison

Song, Big, Made, Big Picture

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

- George Harrison

Career, Break, Them, Since

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.

- George Harrison

Play, Tunes, Something Else, Guitar

The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance.

- George Harrison

Concert, Just, Stance, Bangladesh

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.

- George Harrison

Through, Always, Been, Passed

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

- George Harrison

World, Mad, Go, Excuse

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

- George Harrison

Boredom, World, Saved, Beatles

The Beatles will exist without us.

- George Harrison

Will, Without, Exist, Beatles

What good are three Beatles without John?

- George Harrison

Good, Three, John, Beatles

The Beatles will go on and on.

- George Harrison

Will, Go, Beatles

To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.

- George Harrison

Music, Best, Read, Beatles

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

- George Harrison

Say, Autobiographical, Songs

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

Water, Going, Really, Walk

We were the Spice Boys.

- George Harrison

Were, Spice

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

- George Harrison

Waiting, Mind, May, Seen

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

- George Harrison

People, Long, Will, Hate

The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.

- George Harrison

Fact, Here, Means, Bodies

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