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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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" 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. "

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" The best slide solo I ever played was on... what's her name? That girl singer who used to be with that all-girl band? ... Belinda Carlisle of the Go-Go's! That's who it was. I played on one of her albums. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Gossip is the Devil's radio. "

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

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

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" I don't think the Beatles were that good. I think they're fine, you know. Ringo's got the best backbeat I've ever heard... Paul is a fine bass player... but he's a bit overpowering at times. "

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

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

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

" Hippies are so phoney and fake. "

" 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. "

" 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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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that. "

" 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. "

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

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" With our love, we could save the world. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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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. "

" 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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