George Harrison Quotes (1943-2001)

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George Harrison (24 or 25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was a British songwriter, musician and film producer who rose to fame as a member of The Beatles.

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“...the more I learn the less I know...”
“Something in the way she moves
attracts me like no other lover.”
“If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.”
“I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”
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“That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."”
“I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.
”
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“Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.”
“I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too.
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.”
“I really want to see you,
Really want to be with you,
Really want to see you lord,
But it takes so long, my lord.”
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“I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.”
“Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.
”
“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.”
“If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not
We just wrote it like that”
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“Little darling
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun...”
“Even now I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, "When we were in the jungle fighting, it was great to know somebody out there was thinking of us."”
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“I look at the world and I notice it’s turning.
While my guitar gently weeps.
With every mistake we must surely be learning,
Still my guitar gently weeps.”
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“Try to realize it's all within yourself,
No one else can make you change.
And to see you're really only very small
And life flows in within you and without you.”
“The money we raised was secondary. The main thing was, we spread the word and helped get the war ended ... What we did show was that musicians and people are more humane than politicians.”
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“Little darling,
It's been a long cold lonely winter.

Little darling,
It feels like years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun...”
“If I grow up I'll be a singer, wearing rings on every finger
Not worrying what they or you say,
I'll live and love and maybe someday
Who knows baby
you may comfort me.”
“'''Give me love, give me peace on earth,
Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth,
Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load,
Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.”
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“Without going out of your door,
You can know all things on earth.
Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven.
The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows.”
“Bangladesh, Bangladesh
Where so many people are dying fast
And it sure looks like a mess
I've never seen such distress.
Now won't you lend your hand, try to understand?
Relieve the people of Bangladesh.”
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“I got tired of people saying "But what can I do?" Also, the reluctance of the press to report the full details created the need to bring attention to it. So the song "Bangla Desh" was written specifically to get attention to the war prior to the concert.”
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“I had no ambition when I was a kid other than to play guitar and get in a rock 'n' roll band. I don't really like to be the guy in the white suit at the front. Like in the Beatles, I was the one who kept quiet at the back and let the other egos be at the front.”
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George Harrison on The Concert for Bangladesh 3 quotes

“Even now I still meet waiters in Bengali restaurants who say, "When we were in the jungle fighting, it was great to know somebody out there was thinking of us."”
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George Harrison on Hallelujah 2 quotes

“My sweet Lord (Hallelujah)Hm, my Lord (Hallelujah)My, my, my Lord (Hallelujah)I really want to know you (Hallelujah)Really want to go with you (Hallelujah)Really want to show you Lord (ahh)That it won't take long, my Lord (Hallelujah)Hmm (Hallelujah)My sweet Lord (Hallelujah)My, my, Lord (Hallelujah)Hm, my Lord (Hare Krishna)My, my, my Lord (Hare Krishna)”
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George Harrison on Motion

“Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover…”
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George Harrison on Birthday

“All the world's a birthday cake, / So take a piece but not too much.”
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George Harrison on Patience

“It's gonna take patience and time, mmm To do it, to do it, to do it, to do it, to do it To do it right, child”
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George Harrison on 1971 Bangladesh genocide

“'Bangla Desh, Bangla Desh Where so many people are dying fast And it sure looks like a mess I've never seen such distress”
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George Harrison on Krishna

“I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.”
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George Harrison on Horses

“I'm a dark horse Running on a dark race course I'm a blue moon Since I stepped from out of the womb I've been a cool jerk Looking for the source I'm a dark horse.”
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George Harrison on Open individualism

“When you've seen beyond yourself Then you may find peace of mind is waiting there And the time will come when you see we're all one And life flows on within you and without you”

George Harrison on Love

“Give me love, give me peace on earth, Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.”
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George Harrison on Peace

“'''Give me love, give me peace on earth, Give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, Give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, Trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul.”
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George Harrison on San Francisco

“I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops, because I heard they'd all bought out blocks. I expected them all to be nice and clean and friendly and happy.”
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George Harrison on Pop Chronicles

“If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that. ... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.”
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George Harrison on Karma

“John phoned me up one morning in January and said, "I've written this tune and I'm going to record it tonight and have it pressed up and out tomorrow — that's the whole point: Instant Karma", you know." So I was in. I said, "OK, I'll see you in town." I was in town with Phil Spector and I said to Phil, "Why don't you come to the session?" There were just four people: John played piano, I played acoustic guitar, there was Klaus Voormann on bass, and Alan White on drums. We recorded the song and brought it out that week, mixed — instantly — by Phil Spector.”
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What George Harrison Said About Others

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George Harrison on Little Richard

“Thank you all very much, especially the rock 'n' rollers, an' Little Richard there [pointing to him] - it was all his fault really.”
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About George Harrison

George Harrison (24 or 25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001) was a British songwriter, musician and film producer who rose to fame as a member of The Beatles.