If you want to be popular and famous, you can do it; it's dead easy if you have that ego desire. But most of my ego desires as far as being famous and successful were fulfilled a long time ago.

— George Harrison

I'll tell you one thing for sure: once you get to the point where you're actually doing things for truth's sake, then nobody can ever touch you again because you're harmonizing with a greater power.

— George Harrison

I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... Furthermore, I stay at home and watch the river flow.

— George Harrison

I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging while my guitar gently weeps

— George Harrison

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

— George Harrison

I play a little guitar, write a few tunes, make a few movies, but none of that's really me. The real me is something else.

— George Harrison

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

— George Harrison

It's all in the mind.

— George Harrison

It's being here now that's important. There's no past and there's no future. Time is a very misleading thing. All there is ever, is the now. We can gain experience from the past, but we can't relive it; and we can hope for the future, but we don't know if there is one.

— George Harrison

I wanted to be successful, not famous.

— George Harrison