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“It doesn't really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it's only a Northern Song.”

George Harrison
Time

“I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”

George Harrison

of first taking LSD, The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 177

Love

“That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: "Go away, you bunch of boring people."”

George Harrison

The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 296

People , Flowers

“I look at the world and I notice it’s turning.
While my guitar gently weeps.
With every mistake we must surely be learning,
Still my guitar gently weeps.”

George Harrison

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
Lyrics

World , Learning

“Little darling
I feel that ice is slowly melting
Little darling
It seems like years since it's been clear
Here comes the sun…”

George Harrison

Here Comes the Sun (1969)
Lyrics

Feeling , Sun

“I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too.
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.”

George Harrison

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
Lyrics

“Without going out of your door,
You can know all things on earth.
Without looking out of your window you could know the ways of heaven.
The farther one travels. the less one knows, the less one really knows.”

George Harrison

The Inner Light (song) (1968), On Transcendental Meditation and teachings of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
Lyrics

Way , Travel

“If you're listening to this song
You may think the chords are going wrong
But they're not
We just wrote it like that”

George Harrison

Only a Northern Song (1967)
Lyrics

Thinking

“I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.”

George Harrison

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
Lyrics

Love , Sleep

“It just annoyed me that people got so into the Beatles. "Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." It's not that I don't like talking about them. I've never stopped talking about them. It's "Beatles this, Beatles that, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles, Beatles." Then in the end, it's like "Oh, sod off with the Beatles," you know?”

George Harrison

Interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street (aired 12 December 1987)

People

“…the more I learn the less I know…”

George Harrison

"It's All Too Much" (1967)
Lyrics

Learning

“If I grow up I'll be a singer, wearing rings on every finger
Not worrying what they or you say,
I'll live and love and maybe someday
Who knows baby
you may comfort me.”

George Harrison

Old Brown Shoe (1969)
Lyrics

Love , Baby

“I don't know why nobody told you how to unfold your love
I don't know how someone controlled you
They bought and sold you.”

George Harrison

While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)
Lyrics

Love

“You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it.”

George Harrison

The Beatles Anthology (2000), p. 267

People , Truth

“I really want to see you,
Really want to be with you,
Really want to see you lord,
But it takes so long, my lord.”

George Harrison

My Sweet Lord (1970)
Lyrics

“Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.”

George Harrison

Quoted in The Beatles — After the Break-up : In Their Own Words (1991) by David Bennahum, p. 54

Music , Feeling

“Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.”

George Harrison

Think for Yourself (1965)
Lyrics

Thinking

“I'd thought it would be something like King's Road [London], only more. Somehow I expected them all to own their own little shops. I expected them to all be nice and clean and friendly and happy … (on the contrary, I discovered them to be) hideous, spotty little teenagers.”

George Harrison

Expressing disenchantment with the "Summer of Love" hippies of San Francisco's famous “hippie haven” i.e., the Haight-Ashbury district, which he visited on 7 August 1967, as quoted in Dark Horse: The Life and Art of George Harrison, Geoffrey Giuliano, Da Capo Press, ISBN 0306807475 ISBN 9780306807473, p. 80. http://books.google.com/books?id=0PLygywwfL8C&pg=PA80&dq=%22hideous,+spotty+little+teenagers%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2Z6NT6-RM6Wr2AW8maGMDA&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22hideous%2C%20spotty%20little%20teenagers%22&f=false

Happiness

“The money we raised was secondary. The main thing was, we spread the word and helped get the war ended ... What we did show was that musicians and people are more humane than politicians.”

George Harrison

Source: George Harrison, 1992 in Joshua M. Greene, Here Comes the Sun: The Spiritual and Musical Journey of George Harrison, John Wiley & Sons (Hoboken, NJ, 2006; ISBN 978-0-470-12780-3).

Money , War , People , Help