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" 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

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" The adulation or the superstardom is something I could leave out quite happily. "

" 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. "

" 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

Funny

Together

" I just got so fed up with the bad vibes. I didn't care if it was the Beatles; I was getting out. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

George Harrison

People

Soup

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The Beatles saved the world from boredom. "

" I think of myself as a jungle musician because of my lack of formal training. "

" Obviously we were having an effect, because all these people were clamouring to meet us. Like Muhammad Ali, for instance. "

" The world used us as an excuse to go mad. "

George Harrison

Mad

" People say I'm the Beatle who changed the most, but to me, that's what life's about. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" At the point we finished 'Abbey Road,' the game was up. We all accepted that. "

" The fact that we're all here in these bodies means that we're not perfected. "

" 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 were all perfected beings, we wouldn't be here in the physical world. "

" 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. "

" To the best of my knowledge, none of the Beatles can read music. "

" America has everything, why should they want us. "

George Harrison

Why

Want

" The Beatles will exist without us. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

George Harrison

Place

Sound