47 Quotes by George Harrison

Today, I am exploring quotes by George Harrison.

George Harrison played lead guitar with the legendary Liverpool band The Beatles.

Liverpool, England, is my hometown, and it was during my formative years that The Beatles were at the height of their fame. To say we were and remain proud of them would be an understatement.

We loved them all, but I liked George in particular. Despite the presence of the enormous talents of John Lennon and Paul McCartney, George established himself as a gifted performer and songwriter in his own right.

It couldn’t have been easy, but he did it.

Often referred to as the “Quiet Beatle,” George was, in my opinion, very underrated. And he wasn’t so much quiet as selective about what he said and when he said it. When George spoke, it was usually words of wisdom and something worth hearing.

George was known for his deeply spiritual and philosophical outlook on life. He was an intelligent man, for whom I had the greatest respect.

So, without further ado, here are 47 quotes by George Harrison.

Quotes by George Harrison:

1. Gossip is the Devil’s radio.
2. All there is ever is the now.
3. Hippies are so phoney and fake.
4. The Beatles will exist without us.
5. I wanted to be successful, not famous.
6. With our love, we could save the world.
7. I’d rather be a musician than a rock star.
8. The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
9. What good are three Beatles without John?
10. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal
11. With every mistake, we must surely be learning.
12. We sat there and watched ourselves not turn up.
13. As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
14. The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance.
15. It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
16. I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends.
17. Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
18. If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.
19. To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.
20. If we’d known we were going to be the Beatles, we’d have tried harder.
21. The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
22. When you’ve seen beyond yourself, then you may find peace of mind is waiting there.
23. Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There’s no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that’s all it is.
24. As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
25. Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It’s been passed on – it always will be – and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it’s always there.
26. The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily.
27. The fact that we’re all here in these bodies means that we’re not perfected.
28. Having played with other musicians, I don’t even think The Beatles were that good.
29. I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that’s really me. The real me is something else.
30. I wasn’t Lennon, or I wasn’t McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, ‘Well, if they can write them, I can write them.’
31. The Beatles exist apart from myself. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion, and until the end of my life, people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
32. At the point we finished ‘Abbey Road,’ the game was up. We all accepted that.
33. Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them 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, and 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.
34. I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.
35. 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.
36. If I write a tune and people think it’s nice, then that’s fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don’t like promotion.
37. If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn’t be here in the physical world.
38. 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.
39. I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn’t care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
40. Most people think when the world gets itself together, we’ll all be okay. I don’t see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don’t think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.
41. 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.
42. If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it’s dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.
43. I’m not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody
44. 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.
45. I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn’t disrespect my past.
46. Because we were all from Liverpool, we favoured people who were street people.
47. 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.

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