George Harrison quotes:

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

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

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

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'

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

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.

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

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.

The Beatles will go on and on.

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.

I find the older one gets the harder it is to keep the weight off, even if one isn't eating very fattening foods. Once, I was able to put foods like those away, and they didn't show up on the bathroom scales the next morning. But that was when I was very physically active, travelling all over the world and burning up more calories.

I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work.

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

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Love one another.

The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

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

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

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.

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: [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.

Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn't even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don't know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it's a quite a good production. And quite a good tun

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

Life goes on within you and without you

A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

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.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

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.

I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course

Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about.

Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care.

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love

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.

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.

Love one another (His last words)

We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine.

It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past.

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

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

With our love, we could save the world.

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.

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life

One reason I avoid the American TV talk show circuit, when I'm over there, is that the tabloids and the gossip mill are always churning with new, true, or untrue stories about new loves, old loves, pending marriages, divorces, trial separations, flings and affairs with people of every description. I'm not into any of that.

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

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed.

Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you're either very lucky person or you're not.

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

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.

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

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

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

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

It's all in the mind.

Some things take so longBut how do I explainWhen not too many peopleCan see we're all the sameAnd because of all their tearsYour eyes can't hope to seeThe beauty that surrounds themNow, isn't it a pity

We were the Spice Boys.

I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.

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

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.

I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

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.

I'm not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing's arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.

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

Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

The Beatles will exist without us.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

A cloudburst doesn't last all day. . .

All I got to be is be happy.

All religions are branches of one big tree.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

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.

All things must pass, all things must pass away.

All things must pass.

Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm 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 amd 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.

America has everything, why should they want us.

And so my music, it doesn't matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn't go with trends. My trousers don't get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that's the way I like it.

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

As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc.

Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record.

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.

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

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.

Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.

Create and preserve the image of your choice,

Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.

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.

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

Do what you want to do, And go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you.

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.

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

Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

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

Everything is Dinky Doo.

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.

Food is less important to me because I've learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I'm busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don't miss it.

For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.

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.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

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

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

Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle.

I always really enjoyed our early days, before we got too famous. We used to play clubs and that kind of stuff all the time. And it was fun. It was good because you get to play and get quite good at the instrument. But then we got famous, and it spoiled all that, because we'd just go round and round the world singing the same 10 dopey tunes.

I believe I love my guitar more than the others love theirs. For John and Paul, songwriting is pretty important and guitar playing is a means to an end. While they're making up new tunes I can thoroughly enjoy myself just doodling around with a guitar for a whole evening. I'm fascinated by new sounds I can get from different instruments I try out. I'm not sure that makes me particularly musical. Just call me a guitar fanatic instead, and I'll be satisfied.

I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public.

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.'

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

I don't believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

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

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.