George Harrison Quotes

1943–2001 England

George Harrison (24 or 25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was a British songwriter, musician and film producer who rose to fame as a member of The Beatles.

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Also known as: Harrison, George

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I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like.

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.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.

If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

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

All the world's a birthday cake,
So take a piece but not too much.

lyric from the song It's All Too Much on the Yellow Submarine album (1969)

My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit.

I really want to see you, Really want to be with you, Really want to see you lord, But it takes so long, my lord.

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."

The Beatles Anthology (2000)

The money we raised was secondary. The main thing was, we spread the word and helped get the war ended ... What we did show was that musicians and people are more humane than politicians.

The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.

Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting...

I've never seen such distress.
Now won't you lend your hand, try to understand?
Relieve the people of Bangladesh.

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

Something in the way she moves
attracts me like no other lover…

Something (1969)

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.

Even now I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, "When we were in the jungle fighting, it was great to know somebody out there was thinking of us."

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

The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991)

I wasn't getting into any of that.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Harrison (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.