Tao Te Ching
George Harrison
1943 – 2001 CE
Guitar-playing philanthropist
Singer-songwriter, "the quiet Beatle", guitar-playing genius, Hare Krishna fan, Yogananda student, philanthropist, and film producer; George Harrison influenced popular music toward folk rock and introduced Indian culture and music to the West. Two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, he co-founded the Traveling Wilburys, collaborated on songs and music with Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Ringo Starr and Tom Petty. Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 11 in their list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.” He supported the civil rights movement, protested against the Vietnam War, supported Greenpeace and nuclear disarmament, recorded pop music's first charity single to support Bangladesh which earned almost $14 million, and established a UNICEF Humanitarian Fund.
Eras
Generations
Post War Generation (1928 – 1945 CE)Unlisted Sources
Think for Yourself
While My Guitar Gently Weeps
Quotes by George Harrison (7 quotes)
“John Lennon is a saint and he's heavy-duty, and he's great and I love him. But at the same time, he's such a bastard – but that's the great thing about him, you see?”
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“You're telling all those lies about the good things that we can have if we only close our eyes… Do what you want to and go where you're going to; think for yourself, cause I won't be there with you”
from Think for Yourself
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“All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.”
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“I don't know how someone controlled you, they bought and sold you. I look at you all see the love there that's sleeping
While my guitar gently weeps”
from While My Guitar Gently Weeps
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“Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
It's been a long cold lonely winter, it feels like years since it's been here
Here comes the sun, here comes the sun
Little darling, the smiles returning to the faces”
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“The Bhagavad Gita — if he's God, what's he doing fighting on a battlefield? we're in these bodies, which is like a kind of chariot, and we're going through this incarnation, this life, which is kind of a battlefield… unless we bring Christ or Krishna or Buddha or whichever of our spiritual guides ... we're going to crash our chariot”
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