George Harrison Quotes :
1.” When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. “
2.” Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait. ”
– George Harrison
3.” They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us. ”
– George Harrison
4.” I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow. ”
– George Harrison
5.” 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
6.” If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it’s dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago. ”
– George Harrison
7.” If we’d know we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder. ”
– George Harrison
8.” Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There’s no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that’s all it is. ”
– George Harrison
9.” You’ve got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don’t want. ”
– George Harrison
10.” The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. “
– George Harrison
11.” People say I’m the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that’s what life’s about. ”
– George Harrison
12.” As long as you hate, there will be people to hate. ”
– George Harrison
13.” In the end, you’re trying to find God. That’s the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn’t matter how much money, or property, or whatever you’ve got, unless you’re happy in your heart, then that’s it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you’ve got that state of consciousness that enables that. ”
– George Harrison
14.” Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don’t really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It’s just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I’m not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It’s when you put all these things together – that makes me. ”
– George Harrison
15.” 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. “
– George Harrison
16.” Obviously we were having an effect because all these people were clamoring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance. ”
– George Harrison
17.” 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
18.” The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. ”
– George Harrison
19.” I’d rather be a musician than a rock star. ”
– George Harrison
20.” 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
21.” The fact that we’re all here in these bodies means that we’re not perfected. ”
– George Harrison
22.” At death, you’re going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world… it’s what’s inside that counts. ”
– George Harrison
23.” To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music. ”
– George Harrison
24.” 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. ”
– George Harrison
25.” I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn’t care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out. “
– George Harrison
26.” Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me. ”
– George Harrison
27.” 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. ”
– George Harrison
28.” I wanted to be successful, not famous. ”
– George Harrison
29.” I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like ‘Here Comes The Sun,’ and some of them aren’t, you know. ”
– George Harrison
30.” I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn’t disrespect my past. “
– George Harrison
31.” The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily. ”
– George Harrison
32.” Obviously we were having an effect because all these people were clamoring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance. ”
– George Harrison
33.” We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein when we played the clubs. ”
– George Harrison
34.” People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets. ”
– George Harrison
35.” 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