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" In the big picture, it doesn't really matter if we never made a record, or we never sang a song. That isn't important. "
George Harrison
Big Picture
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Picture
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" 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.' "
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" 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. "
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" Of course, once you've been a Beatle, you're never really out of it. People always want to know what you're up to, and if you don't immediately tell 'em, that's when they start making stuff up. "
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" At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance. "
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" 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. "
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" Down through the ages, there has always been the spiritual path. It's been passed on - it always will be - and if anybody ever wants it in any age, it's always there. "
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" When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there. "
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" 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. "
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" The world used us as an excuse to go mad. "
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" 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. "
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" If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder. "
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" 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. "
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" I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training. "
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" 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. "
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" I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know. "
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" I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music. "
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