George Harrison

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If a car comes past me in a traffic jam with a boom box going, I jump out of my skin. Those big booming basses. I'm just more sensitive to noise these days.
- George Harrison
Collection: Past
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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.
- George Harrison
Collection: Perfectly Normal
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Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.
- George Harrison
Collection: Song
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Now the darkness only stays at night time In the morning it will fade away Daylight is good at arriving at the right time No it's not always going to be this grey.
- George Harrison
Collection: Morning
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I find the older one gets the harder it is to keep the weight off, even if one isn't eating very fattening foods. Once, I was able to put foods like those away, and they didn't show up on the bathroom scales the next morning. But that was when I was very physically active, travelling all over the world and burning up more calories.
- George Harrison
Collection: Morning
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Do what you want to do, and go where you're going to. Think for yourself, 'Cause I won't be there with you.
- George Harrison
Collection: Thinking
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If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.
- George Harrison
Collection: Dog
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Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.
- George Harrison
Collection: God
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If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof.
- George Harrison
Collection: God
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You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.
- George Harrison
Collection: God
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There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and on records, it's easy to insulate one's self from the public; that's why I think I wouldn't care to be a television performer, particularly in the States, where TV stardom is so intimate.
- George Harrison
Collection: Thinking
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All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.
- George Harrison
Collection: God
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Everything is Dinky Doo.
- George Harrison
Collection: Expression
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We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!
- George Harrison
Collection: Ideas
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Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.
- George Harrison
Collection: Mean
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If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.
- George Harrison
Collection: Flower
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Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.
- George Harrison
Collection: Names
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Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are.
- George Harrison
Collection: Realizing
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Consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain GOD perception.
- George Harrison
Collection: God
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I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul.
- George Harrison
Collection: Spiritual
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The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction.
- George Harrison
Collection: Karma
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I was so young when I was born.
- George Harrison
Collection: Profound
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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.
- George Harrison
Collection: People
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People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body.
- George Harrison
Collection: People
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Why should God be limited? Even if you get Him as Krishna, He is not limited to that picture of Krishna. He can be the baby form, He can be Govinda and manifest in so many other well-known forms. You can see Krishna as a little boy, which is how I like to see Krishna. It's a joyful relationship.
- George Harrison
Collection: Baby
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There's a point in me where it's beyond sad, seeing the state of the world today. It's so screwed up. It's terrible, and it will be getting worse and worse. More concrete everywhere, more pollution, more radioactivity. There's no wilderness left, no pure air. They're chopping the forests down. They're polluting all the oceans.
- George Harrison
Collection: Ocean
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The first time I took LSD, it just blew everything away. I had such an incredible feeling of well-being.
- George Harrison
Collection: Feelings
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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.
- George Harrison
Collection: Past
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My mum did encourage me, perhaps most of all by never discouraging me from anything I wanted to do. If you tell kids not to, they're going to do it in the end anyway. I'd finished all that staying-out-all-night-drinking bit when everybody else came to it. Probably why I don't like alcohol today. I had it all by the age of 10.
- George Harrison
Collection: Drinking
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I think the main thing that we have to do is try and train ourselves to remember from moment to moment that God is living within us and within everybody else, and just trying to remember to see that.
- George Harrison
Collection: Thinking
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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.
- George Harrison
Collection: Stars
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Through Hinduism, I feel a better person. I just get happier and happier. I now feel that I am unlimited, and I am more in control of my own physical body. The thing is, you go to an ordinary church and it's a nice feeling. They tell you all about God, but they don't show you how the way. They don't show you how to become Christ-concious yourself. Hinduism, however, is different.
- George Harrison
Collection: Nice
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...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed
- George Harrison
Collection: Giving
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It's a matter of turning your consciousness inward in order to then realize that God is in there, and then you can see him outside too. It's just a shift in attitude, really.
- George Harrison
Collection: Attitude
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Indian music is brilliant and for me, anyway, (this is only personal) it's got everything in it. I still like electronics and all sorts of music if it's good but Indian music is just... an untouchable you can't say what it is, because it just is.
- George Harrison
Collection: Electronics
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In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.
- George Harrison
Collection: Grace
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People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open.
- George Harrison
Collection: Book
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All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.
- George Harrison
Collection: Real
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Nobody can become a drug addict if they're hip. Because it's obvious that if you're hip then you've got to make it. The buzz of all buzzes which is the thing that is God - you've got to be straight to get it.
- George Harrison
Collection: Drug
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I still feel like everybody else, that I'm just growing and learning. Basically, I feel pleased to have discovered this thing that's inside me, that's connected to the same thing that's inside everybody and everything.
- George Harrison
Collection: Growing
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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
Collection: Past
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Everybody knows that if they're happy then usually the people around them are happy, or that people around them happy make them a little happier; that's a proved thing, like "I give to you and you give to me"; they all know that but they haven't thought about it to the point of every action that they do. That's what it is with every action that you do, there's a reaction to it, and if you want a good reaction then you do a good action, and if you want a bad one, then you punch somebody.
- George Harrison
Collection: People
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It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know?
- George Harrison
Collection: Talking
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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
Collection: Heart
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The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have to concentrate on your own spiritual advancement; so in a sense we have to become selfish to become selfless.
- George Harrison
Collection: Spiritual
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I don't know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don't know how you were inverted No one alerted you.
- George Harrison
Collection: Know How
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When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found.
- George Harrison
Collection: Sleep
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I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more.
- George Harrison
Collection: Home
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If I feel love, I just want to feel more love. And if I feel a bit of peace, I want to feel more peace. But I don't really have any great ambitions. I feel very happy. I've got a lot of good friends. I just want it to be better and more of it, really.
- George Harrison
Collection: Ambition