"I don't personally enjoy being a Beatle anymore. All that sort of Beatle thing is trivial and unimportant. I'm fed up with all this me, us, I stuff, and all the meaningless things we do. I'm trying to work out the solutions to the more important stuff in life."

"I'm more concerned about the future, but it would take six months of just talking to tell you exactly what I believe in - all the Hindu theories, the Eastern philosophies, and reincarnation."

"The only important thing in life is Karma, that means roughly actions. Every action has a reaction which is equal and opposite."

"Reaching a godlike state is the most important thing, but I've got a job, being a Beatle."

"We die and go on to a new life where we try again, to get better all the time. That's life. That's death."

"My earliest recollection is of sitting on a pot of the top of the stairs, having a poop--shouting, 'Finished!'

"George took us to a place which was a vault, with huge barrels of wine around. It was a restaurant and its theme was... well, the bread rolls were shaped like penises, the soup was served out of chamber pots and the chocolate ice cream was like a big turd."

"I remember cutting John's hair one time, and I tried to get him to cut mine. We did it as a joke only the once, but I don't think he cut mine as professionally as I cut his..."

"That was the last time I ever cut anybody's hair." -John

"As a band we were tight. That was one thing to be said about us; we were really tight, as friends. We could argue a lot among ourselves, but we were very, very close to each other, and on the company of other people or other situations, we'd always stick together. If we were arguing, it was about things like space: 'Who's going to sit on the spare sit?'--because everyone else had to sit on the wheel arches or the floor all the way to Scotland or somewhere. We used to get ratty with each other, pushing, protesting, 'It's my turn in the front.'"

"The world used us as an execuse to go mad."

"The Beatles saved the world from boredom."

"Reaching a godlike state is the most important thing, but I've got a job, being a Beatle."

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much"

"With our love we could save the world."

"Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you"

"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."

"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."

"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'." (1968)

"When you've seen beyond yourself--then you may find peace of mind is waiting there."

"Paul came 'round to my house one evening to look at the guitar manual I had, which I could never work out. We learned a couple of chords from it and managed to play 'Don't You Rock Me, Daddy-O' with two chords."

"We probably loved the Cavern best of anything. We never lost our identification with the audience all the time. We never rehearsed anything, not like the other groups who kept on copying The Shadows."

"You know when they turn over the last page of one section to show you it's come to an end before going on to the next part? That was what Brian's death was like, the end of a chapter."

"I'm not certain about the songs I've written. Looked at from another person's point of view, as pop songs, I like them, but from my point of view, what I really want to do, I don't like what I've done so far."

"The only thing which is important in life is karma, which roughly means actions. Every action has a reaction, which is equal and opposite."

"Everyone's egos started going crazy. Maybe it was just lack of tact or discretion, but feelings got hurt, and probably the biggest problem of all was that there was no way Yoko Ono or Linda McCartney was going to be in The Beatles."

"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."

"I'm a tidy sort of bloke. I don't like chaos. I kept the records in the record rack, the tea in the tea caddy, and the pot in the pot box."

"As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead."

"The nices thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them."

"It's funny how people behave nicely when there's a stranger in the room."

"Playing without Ringo is like driving a car on three wheels."

"I didn't like the look of Rory's drummer myself. He looked the nasty one, with his little grey streak of hair. But the nasty one turned out to be Ringo, the nicest of them all."

"What I thought of the cover [the naked Two Virgins cover] 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."

"I'm really quite simple; I don't want to be in the music business full-time because I'm a gardener. I plant the flowers and watch the river flow."

"All we did for England, selling all that corduroy and making it swing, and all they gave us was a lousy wooden metal with strings through it."

"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.'"

George Martin, at the Beatles first session at EMI in 1962: Is there anything you don't like?
George Harrison: Well, for a start, I don't like your tie.

Reporter: Do you hope to take anything home with you?
George: Rockefeller Center.

Reporter: What do you think of the American girls, as opposed to the British girls?
George: They're the same, only they speak with an accent.

"American girls have massive bottoms." *This isn't from the same press conference, but I thought it was rather funny! Ha ha!*

Reporter: What would you do if the fans broke through the police barriers?
George: We'd die laughing.

Reporter: What was the Beatles' message, after all?
George: Yeah,yeah,yeah!

Reporter: What do you call that hairstyle?
George: Arthur.
Reporter: How do you feel about a night club being named after your hairstyle?
George: I was proud--until I saw the night club.

Reporter: What do you do when you're cooped up in a hotel room between shows?
George: We ice skate!

Reporter: Are you wearing wigs or real hair?
Ringo: Hey, where's the police!
Paul: Take her out!
George: Our hair's real. What about yours, lady?

Reporter: George, why don't you smile?
George: It'll hurt my lips.