Kathy Stevens > Kathy's Quotes

“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

“If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there”
― George Harrison

“With every mistake, we must surely be learning.”
― George Harrison

“Life goes on within you and without you”
― George Harrison

“The Beatles saved the world from boredom.”
― 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

“As long as you hate, there will be people to hate.”
― George Harrison

“My son looks more like George Harrison than I do.”
― George Harrison

“With our love, we could save the world.”
― George Harrison

“Anyway, there is one thing I have learned and that is not to dress uncomfortably, in styles which hurt: winklepicker shoes that cripple your feet and tight pants that squash your balls. Indian clothes are better.”
― George Harrison

“All things must pass.”
― George Harrison

“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece but not too much.”
― George Harrison, I, Me, Mine

“Give me love
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”
― George Harrison

“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

“Avant Garde is French for bullshit.”
― George Harrison

“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.”
― George Harrison

“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?”
― George Harrison

“It's a thingy! A fiendish thingy!”
― George Harrison

“Life flows on within you and without you.”
― George Harrison

“As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.”
― George Harrison

“So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.”
― George Harrison, I, Me, Mine

“I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.”
― George Harrison, I, Me, Mine

“George: [On getting the M.B.E.]
'After all we did for Great Britain, selling all that corduroy and making it swing, they gave us that bloody old leather medal with wooden string through it. But my initial reaction was, 'Oh, how nice, how nice.' And John's was, 'How nice, how nice.”
― George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology

“I fell in love, not with anything or anybody in particular but with everything.”
― George Harrison

“Love one another.”
― George Harrison

“The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love.”
― George Harrison, I, Me, Mine

“George: [On the 'Two Virgins' cover]
'What I thought of the sleeve then was the same as I think now: it's just two not-very-nice-looking bodies, two flabby bodies naked. It's harmless, really - different strokes for different folks.”
― George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology

“What is life?”
― George Harrison

“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.”
― George Harrison