George Harrison Quotes

“With every mistake, we must surely be learning.”

— George Harrison

Life goes on within you and without you

— George Harrison

“My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.”

— George Harrison

“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

We were the Spice Boys.

— George Harrison

“The Beatles will go on and on.”

— George Harrison

“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.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.

— George Harrison

“I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.”

— George Harrison

All I've got to be is be happy

— George Harrison

“Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.”

— George Harrison

If you're listening, I'm the walrus, too.

— George Harrison

“Gossip [is] the Devil's radio: Don't be a broadcaster.”

— George Harrison

“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

“All I got to be is be happy.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

“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.”

— George Harrison

“I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom.”

— George Harrison

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

— 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

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

— George Harrison

“If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.”

— George Harrison

“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.”

— George Harrison

“If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.”

— George Harrison

“If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

“It's easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It's easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.”

— George Harrison

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.

— George Harrison

It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years.

— George Harrison

“Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.”

— George Harrison

“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.”

— George Harrison

“Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

“We have the same qualities as God, just like a drop of the ocean has the same qualities as the whole ocean. Everybody's looking for something and we are it. We don't have to look anywhere
it's right there within ourselves.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

“The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.”

— George Harrison

“There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England ... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.”

— George Harrison

Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

No truth could ever fear me.

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

A cloudburst doesn't last all day ...

— George Harrison

“Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.”

— George Harrison

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.

— George Harrison

“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.”

— George Harrison