George Harrison Quotes (63 Quotes)


    We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

    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.

    Like, we're the Beatles after all, aren't we We have all the money you could ever dream of. We have all the fame you could ever wish for. But, it isn't love. It isn't health. It isn't peace inside. Is it

    The main gist of it is to find the most ancient Beatle music possible. It comes in chronological order through the various other records we made and bring it up to date, up to now. We want to put as many songs on the CD's as possible, to make it of

    I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out.


    There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England... Everybody was in a skiffle group... All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass... you only needed two chords Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle,that's all it is.


    All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.



    Really it comes down to exclusive games, ... Who's got games you can't get anywhere else We have strong internal development resources, and the combination of familiar character franchises in a new environment with completely new games for the older audience, and innovative types of game play. Everyone's going to have pretty graphics. That doesn't necessarily make the entertainment more compelling.

    The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.


    No consumer has ever played this new Nintendo system before. But more importantly, no one has ever interacted with video games in this way before. Our next home console will revolutionize how people play and experience video games.

    Peach has never been a pushover, but this classically styled game really lets her put the hurt on her enemies. Our damsel in distress has become a powerful leading lady.

    McCartney, who described himself as devastated, ... He was full of fun, like he always was, such a brave lad. To me he's just my little baby brother.

    We're giving both music and video game fans an incredible fusion of entertainment.

    We've seen stories over the past week or two that said we would have a big announcement at E3, but we thought expectations were being set too high. So we thought we'd get the word out early.

    Now as it gets into the mid to late 60's we found different outtakes or maybe a version of something that had some vocals that were different to the vocals that ended up on the master, so what we have done is present the alternate version. And we have tried to create a lot of the most famous songs but totally different versions of them.

    You're asking me will my love grow I don't know, I don't know You stick around now it may show I don't know, I don't know

    It is one of our perennial problems, whether there is actually a God. From the Hindu point of view each soul is divine. 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.

    It's gonna sound like them if it is them. It sounds like them now, that's what I think. It doesn't, when you say it sounds like the Beatles, people may expect it sound like y'know 65 or 68 or 9 or Abbey Road. But the whole technical thing that has ta

    You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.

    I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everywhere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years.- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.



    There's high, and there's high, and to get really high - I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going.

    As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

    I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

    The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.

    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.

    We sold our position back to Rare and then they sold the entire company to Microsoft.



    As with all of our launches, it's always about making sure product is finished and as good as it can be.

    Remember- Now- Be Here Now. As it's not like it was before. The Past was...Be Here Now. As it's not like it was before. It was. Why try to live a life that isn't real no-how A mind that wants to wander round a corner is an unwise mind. Be Here Now.

    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.



    Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it spent seven weeks at No. 1. At the time I did it, I can't remember even taking any notice of it.

    I think the popular music has gone truly weird. It's either cutesy-wutesy or it's hard, nasty stuff. It's good that this has life again with the youth.

    After 'Norwegian Wood', I met Ravi Shankar at a friend's house in London, for dinner. He offered to give me instructions in the basics of the sitar, like how to sit, how to hold it, and the basic exercises. It was the first time I had ever really learned these sort of things.

    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

    I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.

    When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.


    I think people who can truly live a life in music are telling the world, You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give

    I'm steppin' outta this old brown shoe, baby, I'm in love with you.

    The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.



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