At death, you're going to be needing some spiritual guidance and some kind of inner knowledge that extends beyond the boundaries of the physical world... it's what's inside that counts.
We got £25 a week in the early Sixties when we were first with Brian Epstein, when we played the clubs.
After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.
People are simply screwing up when they go out and buy beefsteak, which is killing them with cancer and heart troubles. The stuff costs a fortune, too. You could feed a thousand people with lentil soup for the cost of half a dozen filets.
I just write a song, and it just comes out however it wants to. And some of them are catchy songs like 'Here Comes The Sun,' and some of them aren't, you know.
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 wanted to collaborate with someone, but it had to be someone I could work with and who wouldn't disrespect my past.
If I write a tune and people think it's nice, then that's fine by me, but I hate having to compete and promote the thing. I really don't like promotion.
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.
I never listen to the radio to keep up with current trends.
Gossip is the Devil's radio.
Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
The world used us as an excuse to go mad.
Hippies are so phoney and fake.
I wanted to be successful, not famous.
I'm not a fan of that sort of punky, heavy, tinny stuff. I like a nice melody.
Because we were all from Liverpool, we favored people who were street people.
I think it was John who really urged me to play sitar on 'Norwegian Wood,' which was the first time we used it. Now, Paul has just asked me recently whether I'd written any more of those 'Indian type of tunes.' He suddenly likes them now. But at the time, he wouldn't play on them.
I'm really quite simple. I plant flowers and watch them grow... I stay at home and watch the river flow.
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.