Top 100 Quotes About George Harrison
#1. While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.
George Harrison
#2. 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
#3. The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'
George Harrison
#4. If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.
George Harrison
#5. I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.
Ronnie Wood
#6. It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.
George Harrison
#7. I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household.
Kathryn Harrison
#8. 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
George Harrison
#9. When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
Ravi Shankar
#10. 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
#11. 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
#13. The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.
George Harrison
#15. 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.
George Harrison
#16. 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
#19. Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.
George Harrison
#20. The movie I've seen a million times - wait, that's not possible - my favorite movie of all times is 'The Empire Strikes Back,' directed by Irvin Kershner, executive-produced by the great George Lucas and stars Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher, Billy Dee Williams, James Earl Jones.
Donald Faison
#21. 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
#22. 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
#24. I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
George Harrison
#25. During this time, Ainsworth met Charles Dickens and introduced the young writer to the publisher Macrone and to George Cruikshank. Ainsworth also introduced Dickens to
William Harrison Ainsworth
#26. The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.
George Harrison
#27. This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
George Harrison
#29. 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
#30. I was the biggest George Harrison fanatic in the world. He was raised Catholic; my parents are both ex-clergy, so I was raised Catholic, and I admired how he used his faith.
John Fugelsang
#31. 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
#33. I mostly play old period songs, as they suit a ukulele more. I bought it when I saw the tribute concert to George Harrison. Joe Brown came on and sang 'I'll See You In My Dreams,' and there wasn't a dry eye in the house.
Charles Dance
#34. George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.
Michael Palin
#35. It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.
George Harrison
#36. 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
#37. 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
#38. Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.
George Harrison
#39. George Harrison and John Lennon were the ones most against touring ... I'd been trying to say ..Ah, tourings good and it keeps us sharp .. but finally I agreed with them
Paul McCartney
#40. Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.
George Washington
#41. 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
#42. The first one I actually met was George Harrison.
Pete Best
#43. Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.
Christina Ricci
#44. 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
#46. George put his hand on top of Beatrice's and felt the warmth of both the woman and her hound pulsing through his fingers. "Just because your father does not see your victory does not mean that it is none," he said softly.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#47. 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.
George Harrison
#49. 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
#50. I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.
George Harrison
#51. 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
#52. We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.
George Harrison
#53. There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.
George Harrison
#54. I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature
George Harrison
#55. I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.
George Harrison
#56. George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.
Ray Comfort
#57. Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.
George Harrison
#58. Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature
George Harrison
#60. 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
#61. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
George Harrison
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.
George Harrison
#66. If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.
George Harrison
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
George Harrison
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.
George Harrison
#75. The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
Lorna Luft
#77. Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.
George Harrison
#78. George Harrison is perhaps one of the most creative people I ever met, not only in his music and songwriting, but just the way he lived his life, decorated his gardens and homes. He was a dear friend of mine. His entire approach to music was very unique.
Gary Wright
#80. 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
George Harrison
#81. I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I'm dead, making them into hit songs.
George Harrison
#82. That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.
George Harrison
#83. Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.
George Harrison
#84. 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.
George Harrison
#85. Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster.
George Harrison
#87. Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
George Harrison
#88. Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.
George Harrison
#89. 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
#90. The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.
George Harrison
#92. 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
#93. 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
#95. 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.
George Harrison
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#100. Heaven and hell is right now ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
George Harrison
