George Harrison

If you remember the 1960s, you weren’t there.
– George Harrison

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
– George Harrison

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

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

The world used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us.
– George Harrison

That’s what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: “Go away, you bunch of boring
people.”
– George Harrison

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

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

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

As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains
dead.
– George Harrison

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

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

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

Gossip is the Devil’s radio.
– George Harrison

I’ve been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don’t feel like talking.
– George Harrison

If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.
– George Harrison

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

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

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

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

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

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

The purpose of life is to find out “Who am I?”, “Why am I here?” and “Where am I going?”
– George Harrison

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

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

I’d rather be a musician than a rockstar.
– George Harrison

I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock ‘n’ roll band. I
don’t really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one
who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.
– George Harrison

Everything else can wait but the search for God cannot wait, and love one another.
– George Harrison

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn’t matter what you call Him just as long as
you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and
shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms
of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One’s values are profoundly changed
when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but
beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.
– George Harrison

We were the Spice Boys.
– George Harrison

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
– George Harrison

I wanted to show that Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are really the same thing.
– George Harrison

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

In one way, we’re on an upward swing. But at the same time there’s still a lot of evil that
goes on in the world.
– George Harrison

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

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

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

We’re battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time.
But basically we all want love, that’s what I feel. And all love is really God’s love.
– George Harrison

The first time I heard Love Me Do on the radio, I went shivery all over – I couldn’t believe it!
– George Harrison

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

We met everyone in the world and never had a moment’s peace.
– George Harrison

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

The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It’s like growing up in a
family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your
own car, split up a bit.
– George Harrison

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

America has everything, why should they want us?
– George Harrison

Heaven and hell is right now – you make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.
– George Harrison

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place. But at other times it is all such a
joke.
– George Harrison

While everybody else was going mad, we were actually the sanest people in the whole thing.
– George Harrison

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

One by one we liberate our souls, our individual souls, from the cycle, by our own realizations.
– George Harrison

Sometimes Paul would make us do these really fruity songs. I mean, my god, Maxwell’s Silver
Hammer was so fruity!
– George Harrison