Quotes by George Harrison

“To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.”

“Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I ...”

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

“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.”

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

“I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.”

“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.”

“The Beatles saved the world from boredom.”

“Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.”

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

“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,...”

“Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed because we didn't have any. It is like monkeys in a zoo. They die. You know, everything needs to be left alone.”

“If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, t...”

“If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that...”

“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...”

“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, th...”

“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 ...”

“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 t...”

“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 wh...”

“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 g...”