George Harrison

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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."

George Harrison

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."

George Harrison

"They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us."

George Harrison

"We were the Spice Boys."

George Harrison

"Your own space, man, it's so important. That's why we were doomed, because we didn't have any. We were like monkeys in a zoo."

George Harrison

"[A dark horse is] the one who suddenly pulls out from behind the rest and barrels ahead to actually win the race. The one that nobody's bothered to put any money on. That's me, I guess. The very last one anyone would have ever expected to come out a winner."

George Harrison

"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept records in the record rack, tea in the tea caddy, and pot in the pot box."

George Harrison

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

George Harrison

"Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive."

George Harrison

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

George Harrison

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

George Harrison

"I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.'"

George Harrison

"The Beatles exist apart from my Self. 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

"There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is."

George Harrison

"I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everyehere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years."

George Harrison

"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."

George Harrison

"I can know all things on Earth."

George Harrison

"I can know all things on Earth."

George Harrison

"We were the Spice Boys."

George Harrison

"I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.'"

George Harrison

"They used us as an excuse to go mad and then blamed it on us."

George Harrison

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

George Harrison

"Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive."

George Harrison

"I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everyehere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years."

George Harrison

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."

George Harrison