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

George Harrison

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

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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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" 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. "

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" 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. "

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" Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait. "

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

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" What good are three Beatles without John? "

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

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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'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. "

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

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" I wanted to be successful, not famous. "

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" Love one another. "

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

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" Hippies are so phoney and fake. "

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" The Concert for Bangladesh was just a moral stance. "

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

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

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" If we'd know we were going to be the Beatles, we'd have tried harder. "

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

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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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" 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. "

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

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" Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people. "

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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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" 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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