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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. "

George Harrison

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Muhammad Ali was quite cute. "

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

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

George Harrison

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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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

George Harrison

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "