Top 100 Quotes About George Harrison
#1. I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.
Ronnie Wood
#2. When people say that George Harrison made me famous, that is true in a way.
Ravi Shankar
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.
Michael Palin
#8. 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
#9. The first one I actually met was George Harrison.
Pete Best
#10. 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
#11. George Harrison was known as the quiet Beatle. Quiet people are often quiet because they are deep thinkers.
Ray Comfort
#12. 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
#13. The high point of my entire junior high school career was going backstage to meet George Harrison. I was simply awestruck.
Lorna Luft
#14. 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
#16. 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
#17. I met Paul in 1967, Ringo in 1985, and I saw George Harrison in a nightclub somewhere in L. A. I never met John.
Brian Wilson
#18. A regret I have was never being able to interview George Harrison. I just loved him but I never had a chance to interview him.
Nina Blackwood
#19. Most of my ukulele heroes were traditional players from Hawaii, like Eddie Kamae and Ohta-san. There may not be uke stars in popular culture, but there are certainly pop stars that play uke - George Harrison, Eddie Vedder, Taylor Swift, Train, and Paul McCartney.
Jake Shimabukuro
#20. In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
Gary Wright
#21. I was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son. That was from the age of about four or five, before I even knew who he was. And for seven years people would follow me about school singing 'Yellow Submarine.' I still can't listen to that song to this day.
Dhani Harrison
#22. George Harrison's cautionary words are a constant companion - "In their bid to tell what they know, sometimes people tell more than what they know
Mark Lewisohn
#23. If I were in the Beatles, I'd be a good George Harrison.
Noel Gallagher
#24. I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense.
Billy Boyd
#25. Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'
Dhani Harrison
#26. George Harrison is one of the sweetest, kindest and most considerate men I know.
Al Aronowitz
#27. George Harrison was also a pleasure to work with. He was one of the most famous people I've ever known, but in spite of that fame, he was such a nice and friendly guy.
Alvin Lee
#28. Ohhhso hard to say, but George Harrison was pretty darn special. Such a great guybeautiful person and amazing songwriter/musician. A real honor for me to have played on his last tour
Chuck Leavell
#30. Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.
Andrew Rosenthal
#31. 'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing in Indian music. Paul McCartney was a huge Little Richard fan. John Lennon was into minimalist aggressive rock.
Chris Cornell
#32. I decided early on that I wanted to be Michael Bloomfield, Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton - not George Harrison.
Todd Rundgren
#33. Estimated height in feet of a memorial tree planted for George Harrison that died in July after an attack by beetles : 15
Anonymous
#34. I stopped listening to Dylan with both ears after Highway 64 (sic) and Blonde on Blonde, and even then it was because George (Harrison) would sit me down and make me listen.
John Lennon
#35. He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
Tom Petty
#36. George Harrison was the kind of guy who wasn't going to leave until he hugged you for five minutes and told you how much he loved you.
Tom Petty
#37. I've tended to avoid meeting my heroes. They aren't necessarily the nicest people anyway. The exception was George Harrison, one of the loveliest men I've ever met. He lent me his home studio to make Hormonally Yours.
Siobhan Fahey
#38. As we talked I thought about him being gone. I thought about washing my sheets. I thought about the likelihood of him wanting to see me again. Mostly I thought about organizing my books alphabetically and dancing by myself to George Harrison songs.
Kendra Grant Malone
#39. While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.
George Harrison
#40. 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
#41. The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'
George Harrison
#42. If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.
George Harrison
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#47. The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.
George Harrison
#49. 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
#50. 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
#53. Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.
George Harrison
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#58. I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.
George Harrison
#59. 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
#60. The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke.
George Harrison
#61. This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.
George Harrison
#63. 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
#64. 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
#66. It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.
George Harrison
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. Harrison's 8,400-word inaugural speech was the longest ever, while his 30-day Presidency was the shortest.
George Washington
#71. 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
#72. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.
George Harrison
#81. There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.
George Harrison
#82. I didn't notice him coming, but he didn't seem to be looking for an autograph signature
George Harrison
#83. 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
#84. Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.
George Harrison
#85. Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature
George Harrison
#87. 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
#88. Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
George Harrison
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.
George Harrison
#93. If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.
George Harrison
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
George Harrison
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
