George Harrison (1943 – 2001)
British songwriter, musician and film producer best known as a member of The Beatles.
He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song "Taxman." But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of "Come Together" or three lines of "Eleanor Rigby," you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
I don't mind anybody dropping out of anything, but it's the imposition on somebody else I don't like. The moment you start dropping out and then begging off somebody else to help you, then it's no good. It doesn't matter what you are as long as you work. It doesn't matter if you chop wood as long as you chop and keep chopping. Then you get what's coming to you. You don't have to drop out. In fact, if you drop out you put yourself further away from the goal of life than if you were to keep working.
My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"
...the more I learn the less I know...
I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps.
Little darling
It's been a long cold lonely winter
Little darling
It feels like years since it's been here.
Here comes the sun...
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.
That's what the whole Sixties Flower-Power thing was about: 'Go away, you bunch of boring people.'
Something in the way she moves attracts me like no other lover.
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.
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.
I don't know how you were diverted
You were perverted too.
I don't know how you were inverted
No one alerted you.
I felt in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.
Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.
If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
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.
If everybody who had a gun just shot themselves there wouldn’t be a problem.
Rap music is just computerised crap. I listen to Top of the Pops and after three songs I feel like killing someone.
All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.