George harrison quotes

The action that I've started, sometime I'll have to face. My influence in motion, rebounding back through space.

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.

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.

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

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

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

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.'

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven

The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.

Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by Nature

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

God is actually inside. He lives in our hearts.

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.

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

A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else.

We're God too but we don't realise it.

I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.

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

It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world.

Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.

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.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Everybody would like to be good, that's the silly thing, everybody always likes it when they're having a nice time or when they're happy or when it's sunny, they all dig it; but then they go and forget about it, they never really try to make it nice. They think that it just comes along and it's nice if you're lucky, or if you're unlucky it's bad for you.

We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.

The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect.

So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know?

The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.

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

Love one another (His last words)

Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.

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

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it.

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get from each other and that's determined by how much you're Giving to each other... But it all starts Within our self and then it spreads to those around us, Good & Bad. But basically that's it, I think it's the Love that we can generate is = to the Love that we get back Amen

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.

Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation.

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

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright.

Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.

We were the Spice Boys.

Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.

If I feel love, I just want to feel more love. And if I feel a bit of peace, I want to feel more peace. But I don't really have any great ambitions. I feel very happy. I've got a lot of good friends. I just want it to be better and more of it, really.

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. 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.

When people come up to me expecting me to be just like what they thought a Beatle would be, they're disappointed. I never was a Beatle, except musically. I don't think any of us was. What is a Beatle anyway? I'm not a Beatle or an ex-Beatle or even the George Harrison. I'm just a man. Very ordinary.

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

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

Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

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.

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

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

All I got to be is be happy.

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

I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant.

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.

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'

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

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.

The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have to concentrate on your own spiritual advancement; so in a sense we have to become selfish to become selfless.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start.

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

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

I'd like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they've got married and they've all got kids and they're all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.

I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.

I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more.

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.

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

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beef steak, 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. Does that make sense?

I was naive and thought we could express our feelings to each other- not suppress them and keep holding them back. Well, it was what I felt, and why should I be untrue to myself? I came to believe the importance that if you feel something strong enough then you should say it.

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.

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.

It's all in the mind.

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

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

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. I think it's definitely heading in a better direction, but it seems to take so long for all the people with the power, who control the negative side of life and all the bad inventions they have like guns and bombs and hate. But there has to be a balance. We've got to all try harder to manifest more love in order to counteract all that.

The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.

We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.

God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.

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.

My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.

No matter how much money you've got, it doesn't necessarily make you happy. You have to find your happiness with the problems you have, not worry too much about them, and chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

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 whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

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

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

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

What's often in your heart is the hardest to reach.

All things must pass.

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

The Lord is in everything that's in creation. So, when you look at a tree, it's really a reflection of God. You see it in other people - that's him too, you know?

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

I'd rather be a musician than a rockstar.

The more I go inside, the more there is to see.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

Christ was the one washing the leper's feet so he was very, very humble, but it's not the way People are putting it down now. They feel as though God is that up there and they are that down there and they don't realise that they are God and that Christ was exactly the same as us but he realises that he was God.

It's by your own actions you're able to get more in a mess or out of one. It's your own actions that relieve or bind you.

Once you realize something, then you can't pretend you don't know it any more.

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.

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born!

With our love, we could save the world.

There's a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it's wondering how much you care.

All love is really God's love.

Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.

Even those of us who are very very aware are still so unaware. Everything's relative so that, the more you know, the more you know you don't know anything.

The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'

People are all ignorant, they fear new things, they fear knowledge somehow, I don't know why. Everything that I ever learned was always so great. I never thought so at the time, it was just that little bit more in your mind an expansion of consciousness or awareness.

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