Top 100 George Harrison Quotes
#1. It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.
George Harrison
#2. 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
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#3. The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.
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#4. I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.
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#5. It doesn't matter whether you're the king of a country or ... a fabulous Beatle; it's what's inside that counts.
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#6. Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.
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#7. 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.
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#8. The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.
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#9. This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
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#10. 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.
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#11. It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.
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#12. 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.
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#13. 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.
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#14. We have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody's looking for something and we are it. We don't have to look anywhere
it's right there within ourselves.
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#16. We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.
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#17. I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.
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#18. Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.
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#19. Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature
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#21. 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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#22. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
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#23. 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'
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#24. If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#30. I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly
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#31. That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.
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#32. I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money.
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#34. Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
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#35. 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.
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#36. The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.
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#37. So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.
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#38. 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.
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#39. 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.
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#41. 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.
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#43. 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.
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#44. 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.
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#45. 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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#46. Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.
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#47. If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.
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#48. I'm sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps
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#49. Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
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#50. Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.
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#52. 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.
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#53. It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.
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#54. The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.
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#55. 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.
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#56. Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.
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#61. I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.
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#62. 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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#63. 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.
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#64. 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.
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#65. 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.
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#66. 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.
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#67. When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.
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#68. I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time.
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#69. What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good?
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#71. 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.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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!
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#75. 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.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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.
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#78. I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
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#79. 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.
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#80. A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.
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#81. Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.
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#83. I'm really quite simple. I don't want to be in the business full time because I'm a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don't go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow.
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#84. 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.
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#86. If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.
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#88. 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.'
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#89. 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.
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#90. 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.
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#91. The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.
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#92. Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears
Your eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Now, isn't it a pity
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#93. 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.
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#96. Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.
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#97. Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child.
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#98. You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.
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#99. 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.
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#100. Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.
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