Quotes From George Harrison

Because there’s something in the way he moves us

On November 29, 2001, George Harrison lost his battle with cancer. Although he was known as the quiet Beatle, he had a lot to say and these quotes are some illustrations of why, to this day, there’s something in the way George moves us.

1. “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road’ll take you there.”

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

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

4. “If we’d known we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.”

5. “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.”

6. “People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.”

7. “When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.” 8. “If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn’t be a problem.”

9. “Just take the music, the goodness, because it’s the very best, and it’s the part I give most willingly.”

10. “Gossip is the Devil’s radio.” 11. “In the end, you’re trying to find God. That’s the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn’t matter how much money, or property, or whatever you’ve got, unless you’re happy in your heart, then that’s it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you’ve got that state of consciousness that enables that.”

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

13. “The Beatles saved the world from boredom.”

14. “Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that’s the thing to tell the people.”

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

16. “If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn’t be here in the physical world.”

17. “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.”

18. “Unless you’re doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He’s the one who’s really in charge, you’re just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else.”

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

20. “Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It’s been passed on — it always will be — and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it’s always there.”

21. “With our love, we could save the world.” 22. “It’s God’s love manifest in this world through everything that’s in this world, and all the people in the world.”

23. “I wanted to be successful, not famous.”

24. “I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.”

25. “My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.”

26. “Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life.”

27. “They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.”

28. “I wasn’t Lennon, or I wasn’t McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was that I thought, ‘Well if they can write them, I can write them.’”

29. “Avant-garde is French for bullshit.” 30. “The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place — but at other times, it is all such a joke.”

31. “As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.”

32. “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.”

33. “Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven’t written yet, and it doesn’t even matter if I don’t ever write them, because it’s only small potatoes compared with the big picture.”

34. “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?’”

35. “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!”

36. “Hippies are so phony and fake.” 37. “Muhammad Ali was quite cute.”

38. “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.”

39. “Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven.” 40. “Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.”

41. “I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn’t disrespect my past.”

42. “I’ll tell you one thing for sure: Once you get to the point where you’re actually doing things for truth’s sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you’re harmonizing with a greater power.”

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

44. “All I got to be is be happy.”

45. “The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.”

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

47. “Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.”

48. “At death, you’re going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world…it’s what’s inside that counts.”

49. “I have suffered for this book; now it’s your turn.”

50. “Love one another.”

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50 George Harrison Quotes From the Quiet Beatle About Life and Music. Everyday Power. https://everydaypower.com/george-harrison-quotes/

Best 70 George Harrison Quotes Ever. Today in Beatles History. https://beatlesdaily.com/2019/02/11/best-70-george-harrison-quotes-ever/

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George Harrison Quotes. Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/20108.George_Harrison