Top 410 Quotes & Sayings by George Harrison - Page 2

I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.

I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the first time we used it. Now, Paul has just asked me recently whether I'd written any more of those 'Indian type of tunes.' He suddenly likes them now. But at the time, he wouldn't play on them.

Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.

In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.

I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.

We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs.

America has everything, why should they want us.

It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.

I've always played around in my own mind with what a Wilburys tour could be. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go on right from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? It's an intriguing thought.

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

Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.

Muhammad Ali was quite cute.

If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion.

At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

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

In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

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

Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

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

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

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

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

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

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'

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

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?

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.

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

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

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

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.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

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

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

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

Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

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.

Love one another (His last words)

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

People are all ignorant, they fear new things, they fear knowledge somehow, I don't know why. Everything that I ever learned was always so great. I never thought so at the time, it was just that little bit more in your mind an expansion of consciousness or awareness.

All I got to be is be happy.

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

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

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

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.

People always say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but really that's what I see life is about... you have to change.

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.