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" 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. "

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

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

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

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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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I wouldn't say that my songs are autobiographical. "

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

" What good are three Beatles without John? "

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

" Love one another. "

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" I'd rather be a musician than a rock star. "

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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead. "

" 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. "

" I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music. "

" I wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past. "

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

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

" I wanted to be successful, not famous. "

" Gossip is the Devil's radio. "

" We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs. "

" 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. "