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" I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody. "
George Harrison
Nice
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Heavy
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" When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. "
George Harrison
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Mind
Peace
" The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? ... Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's! That's who it was. I played on one of her albums. "
George Harrison
Band
Best
Singer
" 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
Mean
You
Water
" I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training. "
George Harrison
Training
Myself
Jungle
" If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion. "
George Harrison
Think
Hate
Me
" The Beatles saved the world from boredom. "
George Harrison
Boredom
Beatles
Saved
" It was all part of being a Beatle, really: just getting lugged around and thrust into rooms full of press men taking pictures and asking questions. "
George Harrison
Questions
Asking
Just
" I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow. "
George Harrison
Plant
Home
Flowers
" The world used us as an excuse to go mad. "
George Harrison
Go
Us
Mad
" As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead. "
George Harrison
Long
John
Reunion
" 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. "
George Harrison
People
Yourself
Beauty
" The Beatles will go on and on. "
George Harrison
Will
Go
Beatles
" What good are three Beatles without John? "
George Harrison
Without
Three
John
" The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily. "
George Harrison
Something
Quite
Out
" With our love, we could save the world. "
George Harrison
Save
World
Save The World
" 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
God
Happiness
Heart
" 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
Break
Second
Out
" 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.' "
George Harrison
Me
Reason
Started
" We were the Spice Boys. "
George Harrison
Were
Spice
" Muhammad Ali was quite cute. "
George Harrison
Quite
Muhammad
Cute
" 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. "
George Harrison
Myself
People
I Am
" The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. "
George Harrison
Them
Open
Yourself
" 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. "
George Harrison
Selling
Swing
Making
" I've always played around in my own mind with what a Wilburys tour could be. Would each person do a solo set and then do Wilburys at the end, or would we all go on right from beginning to end and make everything Wilburys? It's an intriguing thought. "
George Harrison
My Own
Mind
End
" Although I have guitars all around, and I pick them up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics, and I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me. "
George Harrison
Me
Funny
Together
" 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
Real
Write
Movies
" We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs. "
George Harrison
Week
First
Early
" 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
Yourself
You
Try
" 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
Mad
Kind
World