George Harrison Quotations

George Harrison British songwriter, musician and film producer best known as a member of The Beatles.

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My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"
- Interview with Mukunda Goswami (4 September 1982)

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?
- Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987

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.
- Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987

He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song "Taxman." But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of "Come Together" or three lines of "Eleanor Rigby," you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
- When asked about John Lennon's feelings towards George's autobiography, interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
- Quoted in The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991) by David Bennahum, p. 54

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
- Only a Northern Song (1967)

Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.
- Think for Yourself (1965)

I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

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.
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

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.
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too.
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.
- While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover.
- Something (1969)

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.
- Old Brown Shoe (1969)

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.
- My Sweet Lord (1970)

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.
- Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) (1973)