George Harrison

Musician, Singer-songwriter

George Harrison was a British musician and songwriter, best known as the lead guitarist of The Beatles, whose work explored themes of love and spirituality.

Born
February 25, 1943
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"The Greek word for Christ is Kristos, which is, let's face it, Krishna, and Kristos is the same name actually."

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"We'll keep on being re-born because for the law of action and reaction: "What-so-ever a man soweth, that shall he also reap;" you reap when you come back in your next birth, what you've sown in your previous incarnation, that's why I'm me and you're you and he's him and we are all whoever we are."

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"Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle."

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"It's wonderful to look back and think you were part of a force that shaped modern music and influenced the public in so many ways. However, that's all in the past."

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"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."

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"As a Beatle, my everyday life belonged to the public in one way or another. We were always appearing for the public in the early days, or we were planning for them, producing for them, interviewing for their sake, etc."

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"Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed."

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"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."

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"We don't belong here, but in the spiritual sky: As l'm fated for the material world, Get frustrated in the material world, Senses never gratified, Only swelling like a tide, That could drown me in the material world."

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"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."

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

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"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"

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"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"

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"Be healthy, don't eat meat, keep away from those Night-Clubs and MEDITATE."

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"But I've been traveling on a boat and a plane, in a car on a bike with a bus and a train. Traveling there, traveling here, everywhere in every gear. But oh Lord we pay the price, with the spin of the wheel with the roll of the dice. Ah yeah you pay your fare. And if you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."

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

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"Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that."

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"The word Hare is the word that calls upon the energy that's around the Lord. If you say the mantra enough, you build up an identification with God."

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"A little understanding of "As you sow, so shall you reap" is important, because then you can't blame the condition you're in on anyone else."

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