Top 43 Quotes About John Harrison
#1. We sat here during Irene in '99 with the back door open. We drank and watched all the stuff fly by.
John Harrison
#2. 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
#3. To be completely free, compelled by none to do as they wished
John Harrison
#4. Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.
M. John Harrison
#6. Happiness and beauty are the worst things you can have in a life, because you never forget them. They go on and on ambushing you, presumably until you die.
M. John Harrison
#7. A good ground rule for writing in any genre is, start with a form, then undermine its confidence in itself. Ask what it's afraid of, what it's trying to hide - then write that.
M. John Harrison
#8. I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.
George Harrison
#9. Write something about me then,' he said when I came back. He grinned. 'Go on! Now! I bet you can!'
'I don't do portraits, Choe.'
The lies liberated from this statement skittered off into infinity like images between two mirrors.
M. John Harrison
#10. He was lonely; I wanted to help, of course, but not from so intimate a distance; and lately our meetings had become memorable as a series of comically protracted farewells on station platforms and embarrassed, hasty protestations of friendship made through the windows of departing taxicabs.
M. John Harrison
#11. '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
#13. I've never been to the Himalayas, and I'm not really interested in them. I'm more interested in a dirty old quarry in Lancashire, and by god, they can be dirty.
M. John Harrison
#14. If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
John Harrison
#15. Ontario wood prices are among the highest in the world.
John Harrison
#16. ... there is endless despair at the centre of every narcissistic self-portrait.
M. John Harrison
#17. 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
#18. He [George Harrison] told me he really, really admired John [Lennon]. He probably wanted John's acceptance pretty bad, you know?
Tom Petty
#19. Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
M. John Harrison
#20. As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
George Harrison
#21. At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
M. John Harrison
#22. I didn't feel that running away would change anything but when the roof of the garage started coming off I thought it was time to go.
John Harrison
#23. In the morning
'When the world looks promising again despite what we know about it'
...
M. John Harrison
#24. CRATEL is a center with a two-fold mission - to explore technology as an expressive element and to use technology to bridge gaps between diverse groups of people.
John Harrison
#25. 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
#26. It's hard to leave behind scenes and characters I am in love with.
John Harrison
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.
M. John Harrison
#31. Brian and I got cast out of that show into Trapper John, M. D.
Gregory Harrison
#32. Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
M. John Harrison
#33. The worst thing in the world is to be inside yourself, you don't even want to be rescued.
M. John Harrison
#35. As they moved from exhibit to exhibit like reluctant tourists in some artist's studio, Buffin sat on a stool with his limbs tense. He was like an exhibit himself in the direct odd light filtering through the whitish panes, legs wound tensely round one another, his face like an apologetic bag.
M. John Harrison
#36. From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.
Greta Salpeter
#37. I think it's undignified to read for the purposes of escape ... . If you read for escape you will never try to change your life, or anyone else's. It's a politically barren act, if nothing else. The overuse of imaginative fiction enables people to avoid the knowledge that they are actually alive.
M. John Harrison
#38. If the courts are making the decisions, it matters who the judge is and, of course, people are concerned with what is the bottom line.
John Harrison
#39. Satisfying every vision that fans have is probably impossible.
John Harrison
#40. Phillip Harrison was the production designer, though, I think he's uncredited. He's done most of my films like Blue Thunder. Lots and lots over the years.
John Badham
#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.
George Harrison
#42. Jim Harrison's novels, John McPhee's nonfiction, Flannery O'Connor's short stories, and the crime novels of John Sandford, Ken Bruen, and T. Jefferson Parker. His books
C.J. Box
#43. 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
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