George Harrison

They gave their money, and they gave their screams. But the Beatles kind of gave their nervous systems. They used us as an excuse to go mad, the world did, and then blamed it on us.

— George Harrison

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

— George Harrison

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

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

— George Harrison

With our love, we could save the world.

— George Harrison

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.

— George Harrison

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

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. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

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?

— 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

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!

— 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

I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.

— George Harrison

That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."

— George Harrison

Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.

— George Harrison

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

— George Harrison