George Harrison Quotes

Even the Beatles lived their lives as a soap opera.

I wasn't really terribly familiar with the Beatles when I met George. They were just emerging. They certainly weren't as big as they became later on. I just knew them as a pop group, and that's all. I was keener on George as a man and a person, as opposed to someone in a band.

The Beatles saved the world from boredom.

Pink is what I do. Alecia is who I am. The world has taken Pink and turned it into this thing, a brand - a snarl.

For some people, I will be Forrest Gump for the rest of my life. But that's OK; that's a good thing.

I never have really become accustomed to the 'John.' Nobody ever really calls me John... I've always been Duke or Marion or John Wayne. It's a name that goes well together, and it's like one word - John Wayne.

I never really created a difference between Shaffer Smith, my actual name, and Ne-Yo. They are kind of one in the same. It's been a bit of a gift and a curse. As far as Shaffer Smith is concerned, I've never viewed myself as a celebrity.

Nobody can compare themselves to what The Beatles went through. It was wild.

The Beatles changed everything. I knew I couldn't compete, couldn't be as cool, so I went completely the other way.

I'm a huge Beatles fan, but I've only really gotten into them as an adult.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

I don't know how Hollywood sees me.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.

Every night I fell asleep to a different Beatles album. So I'm very familiar with the Beatles; Ringo was my favorite Beatle until I grew up and then changed. I made the switch over to George Harrison just in time to regain my cool.

I am George Cockcroft. But when I come to England or Europe, where the name Luke Rhinehart is better known, then I use that name.

The Beatles set the rules. And the rules were: now just because we have long hair doesn't mean that we're rebellious.

Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.

I don't think anybody comes close to The Beatles, including Oasis.

What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

The Beach Boys already had about four or five albums under our belt when these newcomers, The Beatles, took the U.S. by storm in early 1964.

That thing about being an icon, the fifth Beatle, I just found it so freaky.