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
I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everywhere, or I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years.- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.
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?
We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.
I've been the same all along. I talk when I feel like it and I shut up when I don't feel like talking.
The Stones are good - nearly as good as the Roadrunners.
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.
Different ideas had been talked about, that we could do the background music or even write a new song or something, but this became the perfect vehicle because we always had a thing between the four of us that if any one of us wasn't in it, we weren'
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'.
We'll try a couple with just these acoustic guitars.
Like, we're the Beatles after all, aren't we? We have all the money you could ever dream of. We have all the fame you could ever wish for. But, it isn't love. It isn't health. It isn't peace inside. Is it?
I think people who can truly 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
I'm steppin' outta this old brown shoe, baby, I'm in love with you.
Give me love, give me peace on earth, give me light, give me life, keep me free from birth, give me hope, help me cope, with this heavy load, trying to, touch and reach you with, heart and soul
Only the fact that people have written about the reissue have I realized that it spent seven weeks at No. 1. At the time I did it, I can't remember even taking any notice of it.