Author Profile
George Harrison
1943 – 2001 • British • Musician
74
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Collected Meditations
Showing 74 quotesIn the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important.— George Harrison
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.— George Harrison
I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.— George Harrison
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.— George Harrison
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.— George Harrison
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.— George Harrison
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.— George Harrison
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.— George Harrison
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.— George Harrison
I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.— George Harrison