Top 50 George Harrison Quotes

I’m not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.

The Beatles will exist without us.

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

I’m the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska – somewhere where no one knows you, and you’re in a band situation just playing music.

The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance.

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

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

With our love, we could save the world.

If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they’re living amongst so much beauty; there’s no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you’re stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself – otherwise, you’d go crackers.

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

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 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.

Gossip is the Devil’s radio.

Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It’s been passed on – it always will be – and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it’s always there.

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

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

Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.

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.

The fact that we’re all here in these bodies means that we’re not perfected.

What good are three Beatles without John?

If we’d know we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.

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.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.

I’d rather be a musician than a rock star.

I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends.

I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn’t care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that’s really me. The real me is something else.

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.

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.

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.

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 Beatles will go on and on.

I’ll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power.

I wasn’t Lennon, or I wasn’t McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, ‘Well, if they can write them, I can write them.’

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

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

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

We were the Spice Boys.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

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.

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

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 exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

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 just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn’t care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.

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

Muhammad Ali was quite cute.

I’m really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow… I stay at home and watch the river flow.

To tell the truth, I’d join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn’t join a band with Paul McCartney, but it’s nothing personal. It’s just from a musical point of view.