George Harrison Quotes & Trivia



Quotes

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.

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

America has everything, why should they want us.

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

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Gossip is the Devil's radio.

Hippies are so phoney and fake.

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.

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

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

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

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.

Love one another (His last words).

Love one another.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

The Beatles will exist without us.

The Beatles will go on and on.

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

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

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

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.

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.

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.

We were the Spice Boys.

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

With our love, we could save the world.

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

Trivia

George met teenage model Patty Boyd (who later became his wife), while filming A Hard Day's Night.

George was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist on 15 March 2004.

George survived an attack by an intruder at his mansion in Henley. He was stabbed several times, and suffered a punctured lung.

George married Olivia on September 1, 1988 and they were married until he died.

George was good friends with the cast members of

George was treated for throat cancer in 1997 and was in remission.

George overcame cocaine addiction in 1980.

George worked as an apprentice electrician when he was 16 years old.

George was a principal partner and executive producer for Handmade Films from 1979 to 1994.

George wrote the introduction to a biography about sitar player Ravi Shankar.

George was stabbed in the chest multiple times by an intruder who broke into his home on December 30, 1999.

George was the youngest of four children.

Jelly Babies were George's favorite candy.

George was 5' 10 1/2" tall.