Top 160 George Harrison Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “I don’t know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don’t know how you were inverted No one alerted you.”

— George Harrison

52. “I’m really quite simple. I don’t want to be in the business full time because I’m a gardener. I plant flowers and watch them grow. I don’t go out to clubs and partying. I stay at home and watch the river flow.”

— George Harrison

53. “The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.”

— George Harrison

54. “It’s being here now that’s important. There’s no past and there’s no future. All there is ever, is the now.”

— George Harrison

55. “Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea.”

— George Harrison

56. “Ultimately the love can become so big that we can love the whole of creation instead of ‘I love this but I don’t like that.’”

— George Harrison

57. “Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.”

— George Harrison

58. “Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care.”

— George Harrison

59. “You’re asking me will my love grow. I don’t know, I don’t know. You stick around now it may show. I don’t know, I don’t know.”

— George Harrison

60. “Gossip is the Devil’s radio.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

62. “Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.”

— George Harrison

63. “Let me tell you how it will be. There’s one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I’m the taxman.”

— George Harrison

64. “The more I go inside, the more there is to see.”

— George Harrison

65. “The Beatles will go on and on.”

— George Harrison

66. “I was so young when I was born.”

— George Harrison

67. “If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn’t be a problem.”

— George Harrison

68. “It’s easier to tell a lie, than to tell the truth. It’s easier to kill a fly, than it is to turn it loose.”

— George Harrison

69. “I’ve got my mind set on you. But it’s gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it’s gonna take plenty of money.”

— George Harrison

70. “It doesn’t really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it’s only a Northern Song.”

— George Harrison

71. “There’s a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.”

— George Harrison

72. “I’m sitting here doing nothing but ageing while my guitar gently weeps.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

74. “The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.”

— George Harrison

75. “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.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

77. “Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.”

— George Harrison

78. “I don’t want to be a film star. I don’t even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace.”

— George Harrison

79. “America has everything, why should they want us.”

— George Harrison

80. “If you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.”

— George Harrison

81. “I’ll play what you want or I won’t play at all.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

83. “Life is like a rain drop on a lotus leaf. Everybody realises that you’re either very lucky person or you’re not.”

— George Harrison

84. “For the forest to be green, each tree must be green.”

— George Harrison

85. “I hope somebody does this to all my crap demos when I’m dead, making them into hit songs.”

— George Harrison

86. “Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.”

— George Harrison

87. “I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need ‘regrooving,’ I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.”

— George Harrison

88. “Since our problems have been our own creation, they also can be overcome.”

— George Harrison

89. “I’m a tidy sort of bloke. I don’t like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box.”

— George Harrison

90. “The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don’t mind no frowns, cheer down.”

— George Harrison

91. “Hippies are so phoney and fake.”

— George Harrison

92. “Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.”

— George Harrison

93. “I believe love – and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It’s something I’m not willing to share with the public.”

— George Harrison

94. “I’d rather be a musician than a rockstar.”

— George Harrison

95. “You don’t need a passport and you don’t need no visas, you don’t need to designate or emigrate before you can see Jesus.”

— George Harrison

96. “A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.”

— George Harrison

97. “I’ll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I’ll never stop my music.”

— George Harrison

98. “Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil’s radio child.”

— George Harrison

99. “You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.”

— George Harrison

100. “Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.”

— George Harrison