110+ George Harrison Quotes On Death, Beatles And God

George Harrison was a British musician and songwriter who was best known as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. He was also known for his work in the Indian classical music, having studied the sitar with Ravi Shankar. He released several solo albums throughout his career, including his critically acclaimed triple album All Things Must Pass. Following is our collection on famous quotes by George Harrison on death, beatles, god.

Top 10 George Harrison Quotes

1. I'm only myself when I have a guitar in my hands.
2. As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
3. With every mistake, we must surely be learning.
4. When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
5. Love one another (His last words)
6. 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.
7. The world is ready for a mystic revolution, a discovery of the God in each of us.
8. I've heard that while the show was on there were no reported crimes, or very few. When The Beatles were on Ed Sullivan, even the criminals had a rest for ten minutes.
9. It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.
10. In the end, this world will go under because of the stupidity of people.

George Harrison Image Quotes

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. — George Harrison

George Harrison Short Quotes

• It's all in the mind.
• Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven
• Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.
• I never surf (the Net). I don't know the password.
• Without going out of my door I can know all things on Earth.
• No truth could ever fear me.
• The smile on your face is sometimes out of place, don't mind no frowns, cheer down.
• I don't wear small shoes, or tight pants that squash your balls.
• I want the Pope to have the Christ consciousness. I don't want to just talk about Christ.
• You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

George Harrison Quotes About Death

Death is just where your suit falls off and now you're in your other suit. You can't see it on this level, but it's all right. Don't worry. — George Harrison

I am part of the cycle, rebirth death, rebirth death, rebirth death. — George Harrison

Everybody is worried about dying, but the cause of death is birth, so if you don't want to die, you don't get born! — George Harrison

George Harrison Quotes About Beatles

The Beatles saved the world from boredom. — George Harrison

I can see the Beatles sticking together forever, really. We've been together a long time. — George Harrison

The Beatles exist apart from my Self. 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. — George Harrison

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. — George Harrison

Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing. — George Harrison

The Beatles will exist without us. — George Harrison

Home life is best for me. But I do enjoy the company of good friends whether from long ago or newer friends who only know me as George, not the ex-Beatle. — George Harrison

Having played with other musicians, I don't even think The Beatles were that good. — George Harrison

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

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. — George Harrison

George Harrison Quotes About God

No matter how good you are, you still need grace to get out of the material world. You can be a yogi or a monk or a nun, but without God's grace you still can't make it. — George Harrison

God's all happiness, all bliss, and by chanting His names we connect with Him. So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant. — George Harrison

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God. — George Harrison

Part of Krishna consciousness is trying to tune in all the senses of all the people: to experience God through all the senses, not just by experiencing Him on Sunday, through your knees by kneeling on some hard wooden kneeler in the church. — George Harrison

I'd rather be one of the devotees of God than one of the straight, so-called sane or normal people who just don't understand that man is a spiritual being, that he has a soul. — George Harrison

Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls. — George Harrison

Unless you're doing some kind of God conscious thing and you know that He's the one who's really in charge, you're just building up a lot of karma and not really helping yourself or anybody else. — George Harrison

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. — George Harrison

Dear one, near me, truth assessed, reborn worldwise, mind at rest. True heart sow you, God has blessed, your soul whispers, love confessed. — George Harrison

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof. — George Harrison

George Harrison Quotes About Life

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you. — George Harrison

I think people who truly can 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 most willingly — George Harrison

Give me 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 — George Harrison

Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life — George Harrison

My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great! — George Harrison

Life flows on within you and without you. — George Harrison

When you're open to something it's like being a beacon, and you attract it. From the first time I heard the chanting Hare Krishna, it was like a door opened somewhere in my subconscious, maybe from some previous life. — George Harrison

I'd rather stay home and watch the tube than go out and make myself into a spectacle. I'm not uncomfortable with a social life, but it doesn't appeal to me. It doesn't seem to accomplish anything - it just leaves one wanting for more. — George Harrison

Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special, prasadam will hook them in there. It's undoubtedly done a great deal toward getting a lot more people involved in spiritual life. — George Harrison

Life goes on within you and without you — George Harrison

George Harrison Quotes About Love

Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away. — George Harrison

With our love, we could save the world. — George Harrison

Badfinger was pretty good. It was a very sad story, though, because the guy, he ended up killing himself, Pete Ham, who was a lovely fellow, he was a good guitar player and a great singer, he wrote, the most famous tune I would imagine is "Without You", you know the Harry Nilsson record. — George Harrison

If I feel love, I just want to feel more love. And if I feel a bit of peace, I want to feel more peace. But I don't really have any great ambitions. I feel very happy. I've got a lot of good friends. I just want it to be better and more of it, really. — George Harrison

Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love. — George Harrison

I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing to share with the public. — George Harrison

Love one another. — George Harrison

To put your full belief in your Guru, because it's for your own good, because you've decided that... It's just having a lot of respect for the person and it's like that with music as well...You should love your instrument and respect it. — George Harrison

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 — George Harrison

Love, come and get it, it's free. — George Harrison

George Harrison Quotes About Spiritual

The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go; they don't understand the meaning of "to transcend" the intellect. — George Harrison

The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful. — George Harrison

We don't belong here, but in the spiritual sky: As l'm fated for the material world, Get frustrated in the material world, Senses never gratified, Only swelling like a tide, That could drown me in the material world. — George Harrison

A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees. — George Harrison

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye. — George Harrison

The best thing anyone can give to humanity is God consciousness. Then you can really give them something. But first you have to concentrate on your own spiritual advancement; so in a sense we have to become selfish to become selfless. — George Harrison

The more people wake up spiritually, the more they'll begin to realize the depth of what Prabhupada was saying - how much he gave. — George Harrison

Krishna consciousness was especially good for me because I didn't get the feeling that I'd have to shave my head, move into a temple, and do it full time. So it was a spiritual thing that just fit in with my life-style. I could still be a musician, but I just changed my consciousness, that's all. — George Harrison

George Harrison Quotes About World

If people would just wake up to what's real, there would be no misery in the world. I guess chanting's a pretty good place to start. — George Harrison

The world used us as an excuse to go mad. — George Harrison

In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself. — George Harrison

Wherever I go in the world, when I see devotees, I always say "Hare Krishna!" to them, and they're always pleased to see me. It's a nice relationship. Whether they really know me personally or not, they feel they know me. And they do, really. — George Harrison

Most of the world is fooling about, especially the people who think they control the world and the community. The presidents, the politicians, the military, etc., are all jerking about, acting as if they are Lord over their own domains. That's basically Problem One on the planet. — George Harrison

It's God's love manifest in this world through everything that's in this world, and all the people in the world. — George Harrison

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion. — George Harrison

Experience is the main reason why we're here, I think, in the world to gain experience and from our experience we gain knowledge. Oh, I think so, anyway. Knowledge and if we get any knowledge then we gain liberation. — George Harrison

The world is a very serious and, at times, very sad place - but at other times it is all such a joke. — George Harrison

Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world. — George Harrison

George Harrison Quotes About People

People are all ignorant, they fear new things, they fear knowledge somehow, I don't know why. Everything that I ever learned was always so great. I never thought so at the time, it was just that little bit more in your mind an expansion of consciousness or awareness. — George Harrison

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. — George Harrison

People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beef steak, 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. Does that make sense? — George Harrison

I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need 'regrooving,' I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion. — George Harrison

The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it. — George Harrison

Sometimes, you release an album and the record company just about ignores it, and so many people don't even know it's out. And I'm not about to jump up and down shouting, "Hey folks, look at me! I'm cool and groovy!" That's not what George Harrison is all about. — George Harrison

Be straight with yourself just to maybe save a few more people from being stupid and being ignorant. — George Harrison

Some people, of course, can be happier with the cars, the fancy threads, the hilltop mansion, and the other status symbols of 'having made it', but I found that several of my most prized possessions were slipping away, despite all the fortune I had amassed. — George Harrison

People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing here and where am I going? Those sort of basic questions. Even without picking up a book or anything. If they just ask themselves that sincerely, in the quiet of the night, the door will open. — George Harrison

People have to have a desire within themselves to know who they are and the reason why they are in this body. — George Harrison

George Harrison Famous Quotes And Sayings

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one. — George Harrison

With every mistake, we must surely be learning. — George Harrison

Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone. — George Harrison

No matter how much money you've got, it doesn't necessarily make you happy. You have to find your happiness with the problems you have, not worry too much about them, and chant Hare Krishna, Hare Krishna, Krishna Krishna, Hare Hare. — George Harrison

Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better. — George Harrison

It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song. — George Harrison

Christ was the one washing the leper's feet so he was very, very humble, but it's not the way People are putting it down now. They feel as though God is that up there and they are that down there and they don't realise that they are God and that Christ was exactly the same as us but he realises that he was God. — George Harrison

We laughed a lot. That's one thing we forgot about for a few years - laughing. When we went through all the lawsuits, it looked as if everything was bleak, but when I think back to before that, I remember we used to laugh all the time. — George Harrison

We worked the medley on side two of "Abbey Road" out carefully in advance. All of those mini songs were partly completed tunes; some were written while we were in India a year before. So there was just a bit of chorus here and a verse there. We welded them all together into a routine. — George Harrison

When the truth get's buried deep beneath a thousand years of sleep, time demands a turnaround.. And once again the truth is found. — George Harrison

The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you' — George Harrison

Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business. — George Harrison

The Beatles are now history, and it would be unhealthy to try to make my way as a former member. I must admit I occasionally listen to our records, but usually it's not deliberate. I'm more concerned with the present, with working out my own individual style and producing something new and worthwhile. — George Harrison

This song ain't black or white and as far as I know it don't infringe on anyone's copyright. — George Harrison

What do you think of the criticism that you're not very good? — George Harrison

It's all too much. — George Harrison

Krishna is dwelling in the hearts of everybody. It doesn't matter what kind of body you've got, the Lord's there with you. We're all the same really. — George Harrison

Oh yeah, gossip. I heard you on the secret wireless. You know the devil's radio child. — George Harrison

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman. — George Harrison

Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care. — George Harrison

Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier. — George Harrison

We were the Spice Boys. — George Harrison

I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box. — George Harrison

Chanting Hare Krishna can make a person a better Christian. — George Harrison

Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know. — George Harrison

Everyone has to suffer the gimmicks and other stunts and machinations when they're starting out - only at the time, it doesn't feel like suffering; it's fun and different then. But a little fame goes a long way, and then one tries to cast off part of the heavy burden - a burden one can never totally escape. — George Harrison

I remember thinking I just want more. This isn't it. Fame is not the goal. Money is not the goal. To be able to know how to get peace of mind, how to be happy, is something you don't just stumble across. You've got to search for it. — George Harrison

A cloudburst doesn't last all day. . . — George Harrison

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. — George Harrison

I'm a dark horse, running on a dark race course — George Harrison

All things must pass, all things must pass away. — George Harrison

I don't feel the need for unusual or glamorous foods like caviar, and I tend more towards ordinary, satisfying food. — George Harrison

I wanted to be successful, not famous. — George Harrison

The whole thing of life and all the answers to everything are in one divine law, Karma action and reaction. — George Harrison

Create and preserve the image of your choice. — George Harrison

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness. — George Harrison

Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are. — George Harrison

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads. — George Harrison

There's the whole significance of Krishna as the flute player who awakens our consciousness. It doesn't necessarily have to be a flute because for me it was a sitar or a guitar or even Elvis Presley doing "Heartbreak Hotel." It was like Krishna's flute calling me somewhere. It's just really simple when we can remember. — George Harrison

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there — George Harrison

It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite. — George Harrison

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. All there is ever, is the now. — George Harrison

Music is sound, vibrations, whereas paintings are vibrations of whatever you pick up. It's not actually an energy vibration you get from a groovy painting, but music and sound seem to travel along vibrations, you know the whole thing with mantras is to repeat and repeat those sounds... it's vibrations in everything like prayers and hymns. — George Harrison

I don't want to be a film star. I don't even want to be a pop star. I just want to live in peace. — George Harrison

Life Lessons by George Harrison

1. George Harrison taught us that life is precious and to make the most of it by living life to the fullest. He also showed us that it is important to stay true to yourself and your beliefs, no matter what the world may say. Lastly, he showed us that it is important to be kind and generous to those around us, and to be grateful for the blessings we have.