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- "I think people who 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"
- "There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England...Everybody was in a skiffle group...All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass.....you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle,that's all it is."
- "Ghandi says create and preserve the image of your choice. The image of my choice is not Beatle George- those who want that can go and see Wings. Why live in the past? Be here now."
- "The Beatles saved the world from boredom."
- "We ice skate." (When asked by a reporter "What do you do when you're cooped up in hotel rooms between shows?")
- "We got backstage to see Maharishi, and I said to him, 'Got any mantras?'"
- Reporter: What would you do if the fans broke through the police barriers?
George:"We'd die laughing."
- Press: "Which of you is really bald?"
George: "We're all bald. And I'm deaf and dumb."
- Press: "Why don't you smile, George?"
George: I'll hurt my lips.
- "The nicest thing is to open up the newspapers and not find yourself in them."
- "After all we did for Britain, selling that courdoroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather."
- Press: "Are you married?"
George: "No, I'm George."
- (On John's use of of feedback at the beginning of "I Feel Fine")
"I guess in a way he invented Jimi Hendrix."
- (On their promotional videos such as "Paperback Writer" and "Rain")
"I guess in a way we invented MTV."
- At the Beatles first EMI sessions, 1962
George Martin (to group): "Let me know if there's anything you don't like."
George Harrison: "Well, for a start, I don't like your tie."
- "I call it Arthur" - when asked what the Beatles called their haircuts.
- (After watching clips of concerts and A HARD DAY'S NIGHT for the Beatles Anthology special) "If U2 thinks they're a big and popular band, then they should sit through this shit and they can see how popular a real band can be."
- Reporter: "What will you do when the bubble bursts?"
George: "Take up ice hockey."
- "The world used us as an excuse to go mad."
- I picture John physically as someone youthful who made a lot, but I feel him more as an energy, more metaphysically.
- "As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."
- "After 'Norwegian Wood', I met Ravi Shankar at a friend's house in London, for dinner. He offered to give me instructions in the basics of the sitar, like how to sit, how to hold it, and the basic exercises. It was the first time I had ever really learned music with a bit of discipline. Then I started to listen to Indian music for the next two years, and hardly touched the guitar, except for recordings. Having all these material things, I wanted something more. And it happened that at just the time I wanted it, it came to me in the form of Ravi Shankar, Indian music, and the whole Indian philosophy."
- "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 goin'."
- "Derek got held up. He rang to say he'd be late. I told him on the phone that the house was in blue jay way. He said he could find it okay, he could always ask a cop".
- "I either finish this tour ecstatically happy and want to go on tour everyehere, ot I'll end up just going back to my cave for another five years."-- Talking about his North American tour in 1974.
- "I'll give up this sort of touring madness certainly, but music -- everything is based on music. No, I'll never stop my music."
- "I began to write more songs when I had more time, especially when we began to stop touring. Having Indian things so much in my head it was bound to come out".
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