George Harrison
The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.
I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times.
I've always played around in my own mind with what a Wilburys tour could be. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go on right from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? It's an intriguing thought.
The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.
The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? ... Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's! That's who it was. I played on one of her albums.
People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.
Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.
I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical.
The Beatles will go on and on.
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.
I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the first time we used it. Now, Paul has just asked me recently whether I'd written any more of those 'Indian type of tunes.' He suddenly likes them now. But at the time, he wouldn't play on them.
I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.
Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up.
I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.
I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends.
What good are three Beatles without John?
Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.
Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance.
It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions.
We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs.
At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that.
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.
It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.Collection: Time
With every mistake, we must surely be learning.Collection: Hope
Everyone should have themselves regularly overwhelmed by NatureCollection: Should Have
The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.Collection: Life Is
Heaven and hell is right now. ... You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.Collection: Heaven
You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they're ready to get it.Collection: People
Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?Collection: Garden
I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: 'Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.'Collection: Believe
Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.Collection: Looks
Yesterday, today was tomorrow. And tomorrow, today will be yesterday.Collection: Yesterday
In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.Collection: People
Love one another (His last words)Collection: Love
My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.Collection: Philosophy
The purpose of life is to find out 'Who am I?', 'Why am I here?' and 'Where am I going?'Collection: Purpose
The whole point to being here, really, is to figure a way to get out.Collection: Way
I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.Collection: Music
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.Collection: Peace
Why live in the darkness all your life? Why, if you are unhappy, if you are having a miserable time, why not just look at it? Why are you in the darkness? Look for the light. The light is within.Collection: Light
We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Past
We're now the results of our past actions, and in the future we'll be the results of the actions we're performing now.Collection: Past
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.Collection: God
I like the idea of seeing Krishna as a baby, the way He's often depicted in India. And also Govinda, the cowherd boy. I like the idea that you can have Krishna as a baby and feel protective to Him, or as your friend, or as the guru or master - type figure.Collection: Baby
I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.Collection: Want
I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Missing