George Harrison: Quotes about people

George Harrison was British musician, former member of the Beatles. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“Some things take so long
But how do I explain
When not too many people
Can see we're all the same
And because of all their tears
Your eyes can't hope to see
The beauty that surrounds them
Now, isn't it a pity”

George Harrison
People , Beauty , Hope , Tear

“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

“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

“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

“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

“I got tired of people saying "But what can I do?"”

George Harrison book I, Me, Mine

Also, the reluctance of the press to report the full details created the need to bring attention to it. So the song "Bangla Desh" was written specifically to get attention to the war prior to the concert.
– George Harrison, 1979, George Harrison, I Me Mine, Chronicle Books (San Francisco, CA, 2002; ISBN 0-8118-3793-9).

People