George Harrison famous quotes

Everyone has choice when to and not to raise their voices: It's you who decides.
-- George Harrison

#Voice #Choices #Raises

It's in the films and songs and all your magazines. It's everywhere that you may go, the devil's radio.
-- George Harrison

#Song #Evil #Magazines

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.
-- George Harrison

#Hope #Mistake #Ironic

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.
-- George Harrison

#Time #Future #Carpe Diem

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

#Peace #Hippie #Waiting

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

#Love You #Thinking #People

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
-- George Harrison

#Blessing #Boredom #World

The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.
-- George Harrison

#Hippie #Discovery #World

And the time will come when you see we’re all one, and life flows on within you and without you.
-- George Harrison

#Flow #Without You

With our love, we could save the world.
-- George Harrison

#Love #Reality #World

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

#People #Ready #Standing

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life
-- George Harrison

#Light #Giving #Earth

George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds.
-- George Harrison

#Wind #Laughing #Worry

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature
-- George Harrison

#Overwhelmed #Should

We were the Spice Boys.
-- George Harrison

#Boys #Spices

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

#Tea #Records #Chaos

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

#Careers #Break

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.
-- George Harrison

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.
-- George Harrison

#Life Is #This Life #Manifest

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.
-- George Harrison

#Tree #Green #Forests

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

#Morning #Love Is #Sunrise

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.
-- George Harrison

#Music #Guitar #Hands

Hippies are so phoney and fake.
-- George Harrison

#Fake People #Hippie #Fake

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

#Finding Yourself #Newspapers

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.'
-- George Harrison

#Creation #Bigs

I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
-- George Harrison

#Particular

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
-- George Harrison

#Music #Player #Guitar

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

#Forgiveness #Hate #Long

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
-- George Harrison

#Mad #World #Excuse

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

#Garden #Thinking #Sometimes

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

#Music #Giving Up #Madness

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

#Hurt #Shoes #Squash

Love one another (His last words)
-- George Harrison

#Love #Lasts #Love One Another

Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.
-- George Harrison

#Home #Tea #Show Me

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.
-- George Harrison

#Trying #Way #Impress

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

#Thinking #Years #Laughing

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
-- George Harrison

#Song #Rap #Three

Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know.
-- George Harrison

#Years #Two #Waiting

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

#Birthday #Friends #Cake

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.
-- George Harrison

#Thinking #Practice #Meditation

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.
-- George Harrison

#Inspirational #Doors #Heaven

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
-- George Harrison

#Successful #Being Successful #Fame

Give me love Give me love Give me peace on earth Give me light Give me life Keep me free from birth Give me hope Help me cope, with this heavy load Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul
-- George Harrison

#Love #Heart #Light

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

#Inspirational #Life #Reality

The Beatles will exist without us.
-- George Harrison

If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
-- George Harrison

#Peace #Gun #Problem

The Beatles will go on and on.
-- George Harrison

#Goes On

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good.
-- George Harrison

#Thinking #Musician

All I got to be is be happy.
-- George Harrison

#Inspirational

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.
-- George Harrison

#Art #Media #Gossip

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.
-- George Harrison

#Light #Darkness #Unhappy

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

#Kids #Past #Views

Experience is the main reason why we`re here, I think, in the world -- to gain experience. And from our experience we gain knowledge ... and if we get any knowledge, then we gain liberation.
-- George Harrison

#Thinking #World #Gains

But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there.
-- George Harrison

#Travel #Car #Gears

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.
-- George Harrison

#Sweet #Krishna #Lord

I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time.
-- George Harrison

#Long #Forever #Together

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

#Ideas #Responsible #Ringo

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

#Past #Wings #Mad

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.
-- George Harrison

#Yesterday #Today #Tomorrow

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

#Heart #Kids #Thinking

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

#Fall #Worry #Levels

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.
-- George Harrison

#Hurt #Eye #Evil

Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.
-- George Harrison

#Giving #Goodness

I want to be successful, not famous.
-- George Harrison

#Successful #Want #Being Successful

I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.
-- George Harrison

#Surf #Internet #Passwords

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.
-- George Harrison

#Party #Flower #Home

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
-- George Harrison

#Friendship #Glasses #Faults

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.
-- George Harrison

#Love #Heart #Hardest

Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.
-- George Harrison

#Perception #Should #Used

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.
-- George Harrison

#Sadness #Tears #Flow

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.
-- George Harrison

#Cheer #Sadness #Mind

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.
-- George Harrison

#Criminals #Crime #Minutes

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. 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

#Mistake #Self #People

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.
-- George Harrison

#Play #Want #What You Want

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
-- George Harrison

#Want

Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different.
-- George Harrison

#Nice #Feelings #Church

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

#Mind #Quality #Spending

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
-- George Harrison

#Believe #Play #Meditation

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

#Dream #Song #Writing

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back Amen
-- George Harrison

#Thinking #Self #Giving

I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.
-- George Harrison

#Strong #Believe #Feelings

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.
-- George Harrison

#Zoos #Men #Space

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.
-- George Harrison

#Nice #Thinking #Two

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.
-- George Harrison

#Book #Turns

Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.
-- George Harrison

#Soul #Age #Saint

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.
-- George Harrison

#Realization #Consciousness #States

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

#Faith #Waiting #Express Yourself

what would you call this haircut?" arthur.
-- George Harrison

#Arthur #Haircuts

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love
-- George Harrison

#And Love #Krishna #Hares

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.
-- George Harrison

#Feet #Car #Trying

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

#Hurt #Sadness

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

#Girl #Art #Morning