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
Quotes
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"I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn."

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"Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it."

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"George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover] 'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks."

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"With most of the people you just communicate you don't have to talk."

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"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."

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"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."

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"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."

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"I was brought up in the kind of Catholic situation up until I was about eleven years old, which was that God is this thing that we're never going to see, we're never going to meet, but you still have to believe in what we say. It's like this blind faith in something that they can't show you."

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"Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people."

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"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."

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"My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna."

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"Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we'll beat them, and then we'll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn't work."

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"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."

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"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."

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"It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it."

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"A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees."

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"The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it."

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