All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
George Harrison
I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.
When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
With our love, we could save the world.
Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
Gossip is the Devil's radio.
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.
I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.
As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
To tell the truth, I'd join a band with John Lennon any day, but I couldn't join a band with Paul McCartney, but it's nothing personal. It's just from a musical point of view.
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
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.
If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder.
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.
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.
Love one another.
I'd rather be a musician than a rock star.
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.
People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about.
If we were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world.
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.
Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. But I don't think that suddenly some magic happens and the whole lot of us will all be liberated in one throw.
The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out.
You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.
The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, 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.
At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts.
The Beatles will exist without us.
The Beatles exist apart from myself. 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.
I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.
Hippies are so phoney and fake.
I'm the kind of person who would love to play whenever I felt like, with a band, and it might as well be the Holiday Inn in Nebraska - somewhere where no one knows you, and you're in a band situation just playing music.
I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training.
I wasn't Lennon, or I wasn't McCartney. I was me. And the only reason I started to write songs was because I thought, 'Well, if they can write them, I can write them.'
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.
The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance.
If I go to someplace like Switzerland, I find a lot of uptight people because they're living amongst so much beauty; there's no urgency in trying to find the beauty within themselves. If you're stuck in New York, you have to somehow look within yourself - otherwise, you'd go crackers.
I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends.
The Beatles saved the world from boredom.
Basically, I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There's no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are, or what the purpose of life is. And that's all it is.
Some of the best songs that I know are the ones I haven't written yet, and it doesn't even matter if I don't ever write them, because it's only small potatoes compared with the big picture.
We were the Spice Boys.
Rap bores me, and all the glamour rock groups like Bon Jovi just amuse me. They obviously have a place, but they all sound like they use the same guitar player to me.
I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the first time we used it. Now, Paul has just asked me recently whether I'd written any more of those 'Indian type of tunes.' He suddenly likes them now. But at the time, he wouldn't play on them.
The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected.
Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.
To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music.
