George Harrison Quotes
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
I’ll never lose affection for people and things that went before.
If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.
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.
Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.
It doesn’t matter what I do as long as I’m with you.
The people who are trying to make this world worse aren’t taking a day off. How can I?
Music should be your escape.
With every mistake, we must surely be learning.
If you don’t treat yourself right, no one else will.
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles.
In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
If everyone could just be happy with themselves and the choices people around them make, the world would instantly be a better place!
When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
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.
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
Trying to please everybody is impossible – if you did that, you’d end up in the middle with nobody liking you. You’ve just got to make the decision about what you think is your best, and do it.
George Harrison Quotes part 2
You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are or what you have to be.
I’m not really a career person; I’m a gardener, basically.
Love is all, love is new.
When you’re drowning, you don’t say, ‘I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,’ you just scream.
If the Beatles or the 60’s had a message, it was ‘Learn to swim. And once you’ve learned – swim!’
The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.
I’ll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I’ll never stop my music.
The nice thing about being a kid is that if you want to be a cowboy, you can be a cowboy.
It’s important to be different, because people tend to notice such things.
Music is the top of the food chain. It’s definitely the most important thing to me, but I’m not going to deny that I still enjoy a delicious meal.
With our love, we could save the world.
The most important thing in my life is purpose.
Music is everybody’s possession. It’s only publishers who think that people own it.
If you’ve got any doubts about squirrels, give ’em a chance!
You’ve got to bear it a bit in order to make it better.
Beware of sadness. It can hit you, it can hurt you, make you sore and what is more, that is not what you are here for.
The Beatles will exist without us.
I’m not really a performer, I’m a musician.
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.
You’re born in pain, and pain is what we’re in most of the time — and I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.
The Beatles seem to have more things said about them than anyone else.
Happiness isn’t getting what you want, it’s wanting what you’ve got.
Try to realize it’s all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you’re really only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
Without going out of my door I can know all things of earth.
Society encourages us to pursue wealth and fame, yet we are often unhappy when we achieve those goals. It’s because we’ve been sold a bill of goods that isn’t really what we want.
As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
The older generation tried to knock the flowers out of your hand and tell you to grow up. They are still mad because they grew up and you didn’t.
I’m not too paranoid about that. I know that everybody thinks what they’re doing is the best thing to do, so I just have a different view.
The worst guilt is to accept an unearned guilt.
Everybody’s got something to hide except for me and my monkey.
As I’m getting older, I want to live a healthier life. I want to be around for a while.