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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. "

George Harrison

Myself

People

I Am

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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. "

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

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

" I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow. "

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

" I wanted to be successful, not famous. "

" 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. "

" 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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" I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends. "

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Radio

Never

" 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

" 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. "

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

" I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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Place

Sound

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

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