Top 160 George Harrison Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “Although Christ, in my mind is an absolute Yogi, I think many Christian teachers today are misrepresenting Christ.”

— George Harrison

102. “The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.”

— George Harrison

103. “I didn’t notice him coming, but he didn’t seem to be looking for an autograph signature.”

— George Harrison

104. “Love, come and get it, it’s free.”

— George Harrison

105. “There’s a bottomless heart hooked into all of you and it’s wondering how much you care.”

— George Harrison

106. “I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don’t know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.”

— George Harrison

107. “No truth could ever fear me.”

— George Harrison

108. “The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.”

— George Harrison

109. “The people gave their money and they gave their screams, but the Beatles gave their nervous systems, which is a much more difficult thing to give.”

— George Harrison

110. “After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.”

— George Harrison

111. “We laughed a lot. That’s one thing we forgot about for a few years – laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time.”

— George Harrison

112. “The Past is gone and the future might not even be, the only thing we ever experience is the now, I try to enjoy the minute.”

— George Harrison

113. “The saddest thing was actually getting fed up with one another. It’s like growing up in a family. When you get to a certain age, you want to go off and get your own girl and your own car, split up a bit.”

— George Harrison

114. “They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us. Gandhi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George – those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now.”

— George Harrison

115. “I don’t wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.”

— George Harrison

116. “Food is less important to me because I’ve learned to control my appetite to a great extent, simply by having my mind elsewhere. I find when I’m busy meditating on other aspects of my life I go without eating and I don’t miss it.”

— George Harrison

117. “If I had half a chance, I’d put acid in the Government’s tea.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

121. “I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We’ve been together a long time.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

123. “I’d like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they’ve got married and they’ve all got kids and they’re all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.”

— George Harrison

124. “I don’t believe in telling all to the public, but I feel a certain gratitude to them for having provided me with a fine material base that enables me to do pretty much what I want, possibly, for the rest of my life.”

— George Harrison

125. “Didn’t want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.”

— George Harrison

126. “Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.”

— George Harrison

127. “Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed.”

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

129. “I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I’ll be prepared to give it up without regrets.”

— George Harrison

130. “Here are some funny songs, there are some songs that we didn’t even remember. I heard this song that Ringo is singing, I still don’t know the title of it, but it is got the most amazing lyrics and it’s a quite a good production. And quite a good tun.”

— George Harrison

131. “I used to think that having many material things would increase one’s stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don’t make the man at all.”

— George Harrison

132. “I’ve heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.”

— George Harrison

133. “No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don’t see why anyone would assume I’m celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.”

— George Harrison

134. “Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.”

— George Harrison

135. “I’m grateful to myself and those closest to me me for having given me that non-material base that means I’m a happy man, one who doesn’t have to compete or engineer projects he doesn’t have his heart in.”

— George Harrison

136. “Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.”

— George Harrison

137. “If there’s a God, I want to see Him. It’s pointless to believe in something without proof.”

— George Harrison

138. “You’ve got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don’t want.”

— George Harrison

139. “Now it may seem so far from where we all are It’s something we can’t neglect It’s something I can’t neglect Now won’t you give some bread to get the starving fed.”

— George Harrison

140. “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.”

— George Harrison

141. “The world used us as an excuse to go mad.”

— George Harrison

142. “Everything is Dinky Doo.”

— George Harrison

143. “And so my music, it doesn’t matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn’t go with trends. My trousers don’t get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that’s the way I like it.”

— George Harrison

144. “If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.”

— George Harrison

145. “I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.”

— George Harrison

146. “Having played with other musicians, I don’t even think The Beatles were that good.”

— George Harrison

147. “I don’t feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food.”

— George Harrison

148. “We were the Spice Boys.”

— George Harrison

149. “If your dog should be dead, I’m gonna love you instead.”

— George Harrison

150. “I’m not in the habit of having my photo snapped on some pretty young thing’s arm. I avoid pictures because they serve no purpose, except to point out each new line, which is very meaningless.”

— George Harrison