George Harrison Quotes

The Guru and Disciple relationship is where the person has a 100% belief in the Guru and that way you put your trust in the Guru, that he's going to get you out of this mess. If you are a Christian, then Christ is your Guru, and they're all disciples of Christ.

Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are.

The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness.

My life belongs the Lord Krishna now. I'm just the servant of Krishna. I've never been so humble in all my life, and I feel great!

It's easier to hurt someone and make them cry, than it is to dry their eyes.

It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

...won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

Krishna is God, so He's absolute: His name, His form, prasadam, it's all Him.

I've always wanted to lead an ordered, relatively conventional and private life.

As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.

Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

Indian music is brilliant and for me, anyway, (this is only personal) it's got everything in it. I still like electronics and all sorts of music if it's good but Indian music is just... an untouchable you can't say what it is, because it just is.

Dylan is so brilliant. To me, he makes William Shakespeare look like Billy Joel.

The world used us as an excuse to go mad.

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.

We're God too but we don't realise it.

I know chances are if I don't give an interview or make a public appearance or statement from time to time, they'll invent one. Every so often, I suppose people ask, 'Whatever happened to that other Beatle, George Harrison?' And someone comes around with a ready answer, no matter how preposterous it seems. It's possibly the worst price one has to pay for what they call stardom.

You've got to be humble really to be yourself or to get a chance to be yourself.

Krishna is God, and by chanting His Holy Names, the devotee quickly develops God-consciousness.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street; if you try to sit, I'll tax your seat; if you get too cold, I'll tax the heat; if you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

You go on being reincarnated until you reach the actual Truth. Heaven and Hell are just a state of mind. We are all here to become Christ-like. The actual world is an illusion.

We don't belong here, but in the spiritual sky: As l'm fated for the material world, Get frustrated in the material world, Senses never gratified, Only swelling like a tide, That could drown me in the material world.

I'll play what you want or I won't play at all.

I find the older one gets the harder it is to keep the weight off, even if one isn't eating very fattening foods. Once, I was able to put foods like those away, and they didn't show up on the bathroom scales the next morning. But that was when I was very physically active, travelling all over the world and burning up more calories.

In one way, I'm never going to get out of this material world unless it's by His grace but then again, His grace is relative to the amount of desire I can manifest in myself.

You're asking me will my love grow. I don't know, I don't know. You stick around now it may show. I don't know, I don't know

I wouldn't like to say that I'm absolutely God conscious. It's like everybody else. We're battling with the forces that are pulling us upwards and downwards at the same time. But basically we all want love, that's what I feel.

Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven

The art school party in Liverpool, in a flat in the students' accomdation, was the first all night party I ever went to...I puked up next morning. Cynthia was there, and I remember saying drunkenly to her 'I wish I had a nice girl like you'

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

Be healthy, don't eat meat, keep away from those Night-Clubs and MEDITATE.

Srila Prabhupada has already had an amazing effect on the world. There's no way of measuring it. One day I just realized, "God, this man is amazing!" He would sit up all night translating Sanskrit into English, putting in glossaries to make sure everyone understands it, and yet he never came off as someone above you.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

We are all one, I mean communication, just the realisation of human love reciprocated, it's such a gas, it's a good vibration which makes you feel good. These vibrations that you get through Yoga, Cosmic chants and things like that. I mean it's such a buzz, it buzzes you out of everywhere. It's nothing to do with pills or anything like that. It's just in your own head, the realisation, it's such a buzz, it buzzes you right into the astral plane.

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 Beatles saved the world from boredom.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

Heaven and hell is right now, right at this moment. You make it heaven or you make it hell by your actions.

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

Even one moment in the company of a divine person, Krishna's pure devotee, can help a tremendous amount.

There are those superstars who refuse to give anything of themselves to the public except what they see on-screen. In movies and on records, it's easy to insulate one's self from the public; that's why I think I wouldn't care to be a television performer, particularly in the States, where TV stardom is so intimate.

My life belongs to me, my love belongs to those who can see it.

Prasadam's a good little hook in this age of commercialism. When people want something extra, or they need to have something special, prasadam will hook them in there. It's undoubtedly done a great deal toward getting a lot more people involved in spiritual life.

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

Most of the world is fooling about, especially the people who think they control the world and the community. The presidents, the politicians, the military, etc., are all jerking about, acting as if they are Lord over their own domains. That's basically Problem One on the planet.