George Harrison
George Harrison
George Harrison, MBEwas an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and music and film producer who achieved international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles. Often referred to as "the quiet Beatle", Harrison embraced Indian mysticism and helped broaden the horizons of his fellow Beatles as well as their Western audience by incorporating Indian instrumentation in their music. Although the majority of the Beatles' songs were written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney, most Beatles albums from 1965 onwards contained at...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth25 February 1943
CityLiverpool, England
George Harrison quotes about
If everyone who had a gun just shot themselves, there wouldn't be a problem.
I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.
We're trying to impress ourselves in a way. That's why we keep trying to do things better... we never get satisfied.
I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music-everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music.
Friends are all souls that we've known in other lives. We're drawn to each other. Even if I have only known them a day, it doesn't matter. I'm not going to wait till I have known them for two years, because anyway, we must have met somewhere before, you know.
Barney Kessel is definitely the best guitar player in this world, or any other world.
George: 'Ringo would always say grammmatically incorrect phrases and we'd all laugh. I remember when we were driving back to Liverpool from Luton up the M1 motorway in Ringo's Zephyr, and the car's bonnet hadn't been latched properly. The wind got under it and blew it up in front of the windscreen. We were all shouting, 'Aaaargh!' and Ringo calmly said, 'Don't worry, I'll soon have you back in your safely-beds.
Sunrise doesn't last all morning, a cloudburst doesn't last all day, seems my love is up and has left you with no warning. It's not always going to be this grey. All things must pass, all things must pass away.
The biggest break in my career was getting into the Beatles in 1962. The second biggest break since then is getting out of them.
It is better to be an outspoken atheist than a hypocrite.
The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them.
There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.
Scan not a friend with a microscopic glass, you know his faults, now let the foibles pass.