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"Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about."
"I'm sick of all these young people just boogeying around, wasting their lives, you know."
"I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food."
"Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman."
"A cloudburst doesn't last all day. . ."
"Krishna is dwelling in the hearts of everybody. It doesn't matter what kind of body you've got, the Lord's there with you. We're all the same really."
"All things must pass, all things must pass away."
"Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads."
"If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof."
"It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite."
"The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'"
"So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant."
"Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing."
"They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, so if you can get to a man's spirit soul by eating, and it works, why not do it? There's nothing better than having been chanting and dancing, or just sitting and talking philosophy, and then suddenly the devotees bring out the prasadam. It's a blessing from Krishna, and it's spiritually important."
"All religions are branches of one big tree."
"It was daylight and I drove everyone home - I was driving a Mini with John and Cynthia and Pattie in it. I seem to remember we were doing eighteen miles an hour and I was really concentrating - because some of the time I just felt normal and then, before I knew where I was, it was all crazy again. Anyway, we got home safe and sound, and somewhere down the line John and Cynthia got home. I went to bed and lay there for, like, three years."
"Show me that I m everywhere and get me home for tea."
"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."
"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."
""Hallelujah" is a joyous expression the Christians have, but "Hare Krishna" has a mystical side to it. It's more than just glorifying God; it's asking to become His servant. And because of the way the mantra is put together, with the mystic spiritual energy contained in those syllables, it's much closer to God than the way Christianity currently seems to be representing Him."