George Harrison

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George Harrison (24 or 25 February 194329 November 2001) was a British songwriter, musician and film producer who rose to fame as a member of The Beatles.

Quotes[edit]

Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
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.
I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like.
  • From the Hindu perspective, each soul is divine. 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.
  • My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"
    • Interview with Mukunda Goswami (4 September 1982)
  • I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth .... I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.
    • Interview, Henley-On-Thames, Oxfordshire, 1982, Cited in Sushama Londhe in “A Tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and Wisdom Spanning Continents and Time about India and Her Culture”
  • 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?
    • Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street (aired 12 December 1987)
  • 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.
    • Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street (aired 12 December 1987)
  • He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song "Taxman." But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of "Come Together" or three lines of "Eleanor Rigby," you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
    • When asked about John Lennon's feelings towards his autobiography, interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987
  • Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
    • Quoted in The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991) by David Bennahum, p. 54
  • I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
    • of first taking LSD, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 177
  • If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.
    • The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 226
  • 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), p. 267
  • That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."
    • The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 296
  • I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.
  • 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. It doesn't matter if you chop wood as long as you chop and keep chopping. Then you get what's coming to you. You don't have to drop out. In fact, if you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.
  • I got tired of people saying "But what can I do?" Also, the reluctance of the press to report the full details created the need to bring attention to it. So the song "Bangla Desh" was written specifically to get attention to the war prior to the concert.
    • – George Harrison, 1979, George Harrison, I Me Mine, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA, 2002; ISBN 0-8118-3793-9).
  • 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."
    • – George Harrison, 1991 in Elliot J. Huntley, Mystical One: George Harrison – After the Break-up of the Beatles, Guernica Editions (Toronto, ON, 2006; ISBN 1-55071-197-0).
  • 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.
    • – George Harrison, 1992 in Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3).

Lyrics[edit]

Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself 'cause I won't be there with you.
I look at the world and I notice it’s turning. While my guitar gently weeps.
Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting...
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.
Give me love, give me peace on earth...
  • Without going out of your door,
    You can know all things on earth.
    Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven.
    The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows.
  • ...the more I learn the less I know...
    • "It's All Too Much" (1967)
  • I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
    I don't know how someone controlled you
    They bought and sold you.
    • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
  • I look at the world and I notice it’s turning.
    While my guitar gently weeps.
    With every mistake we must surely be learning,
    Still my guitar gently weeps.
    • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
  • I don't know how you were diverted
    You were perverted too.
    I don't know how you were inverted
    No one alerted you.
    • While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
  • Little darling,
    It's been a long cold lonely winter.

    Little darling,
    It feels like years since it's been here.
    Here comes the sun...
  • Little darling
    I feel that ice is slowly melting
    Little darling
    It seems like years since it's been clear
    Here comes the sun...
    • Here Comes the Sun (1969)
  • Something in the way she moves
    attracts me like no other lover.
  • If I grow up I'll be a singer, wearing rings on every finger
    Not worrying what they or you say,
    I'll live and love and maybe someday
    Who knows baby
    you may comfort me.
  • 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.
    • My Sweet Lord (1970)
  • My sweet Lord (Hallelujah)
    Hm, my Lord (Hallelujah)
    My, my, my Lord (Hallelujah)
    I really want to know you (Hallelujah)
    Really want to go with you (Hallelujah)
    Really want to show you Lord (ahh)
    That it won't take long, my Lord (Hallelujah)
    Hmm (Hallelujah)
    My sweet Lord (Hallelujah)
    My, my, Lord (Hallelujah)
    Hm, my Lord (Hare Krishna)
    My, my, my Lord (Hare Krishna)
    • My Sweet Lord (1970)

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