„La musica rap è solo una schifezza computerizzata. Sto a sentire Top of the Pops e dopo tre brani mi viene voglia di ammazzare qualcuno.“
Origine: Citato in David Bennahum, The Beatles — After the Break-up: In Their Own Words, 1991, p. 54.
Data di nascita: 25. Febbraio 1943
Data di morte: 29. Novembre 2001
George Harrison è stato un cantautore, polistrumentista, compositore, attore, produttore cinematografico e discografico britannico.
Dal 1960 al 1970 è stato il chitarrista solista e cantante del complesso musicale dei Beatles; dopo lo scioglimento del gruppo ha intrapreso la carriera individuale, sia come musicista che come produttore musicale e cinematografico. Fu anche un fondatore e membro del gruppo dei Traveling Wilburys.
Durante gli anni trascorsi con i Beatles realizzò venticinque canzoni. Tutti gli album del gruppo da With the Beatles contenevano generalmente due o più brani di sua composizione; molto celebri sono i suoi brani composti negli ultimi anni del gruppo; While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Something e Here Comes the Sun. Dopo lo scioglimento del gruppo realizzò il suo primo album solista, contenente molti brani che non erano stati pubblicati negli ultimi album dei Beatles, All Things Must Pass; in aggiunta al lavoro solista collaborò anche con Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Jeff Lynne e Tom Petty.
Harrison conobbe la cultura e la musica indiana nella seconda metà degli anni sessanta e ne divenne profondo estimatore; introdusse notevoli sonorità di origine indiana sia nei Beatles, sia nel lavoro solista. Assieme al musicista indiano Ravi Shankar organizzò, nell'agosto 1971, il celebre The Concert for Bangladesh, primo concerto benefico nella storia della musica, in cui parteciparono anche Starr, Clapton, Shankar e Bob Dylan; in tale occasione si stava per realizzare una reunion dei Fab Four, ma John Lennon declinò l'invito poiché non si voleva la partecipazione della moglie Yōko Ono, mentre Paul McCartney rifiutò a causa della presenza di Allen Klein fra gli organizzatori.Dal 15 marzo 2004 il suo nome figura nella Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame.
Origine: Citato in David Bennahum, The Beatles — After the Break-up: In Their Own Words, 1991, p. 54.
Origine: Citato in Chris Ingham, Guida completa ai Beatles, Antonio Vallardi Editore, 2005, p. 60. (George Harrison si riferisce al periodo precedente la realizzazione dell'album dei Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, novembre 1966)
Siamo saltati in macchina e siamo tornati a Londra.
Origine: Citato in The Beatles Anthology, p. 264. (George Harrison si riferisce a quando, il 27 agosto 1967, mentre erano a Bangor nel Galles, ad un convegno sulla meditazione trascendentale, ricevettero la notizia della morte del loro manager, Brian Epstein)
Non credo di saper fare nulla particolarmente bene ma credo che, in un certo senso, sia necessario che io sia esattamente così.
Origine: Citato in Chris Ingham, Guida completa ai Beatles, Antonio Vallardi Editore, 2005, p. 167. (Anno 1971)
Interview with Mukunda Goswami (4 September 1982)
Contesto: My idea in "My Sweet Lord," because it sounded like a "pop song," was to sneak up on them a bit. The point was to have the people not offended by "Hallelujah," and by the time it gets to "Hare Krishna," they're already hooked, and their foot's tapping, and they're already singing along "Hallelujah," to kind of lull them into a sense of false security. And then suddenly it turns into "Hare Krishna," and they will all be singing that before they know what's happened, and they will think, "Hey, I thought I wasn't supposed to like Hare Krishna!"
Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Contesto: If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
Think for Yourself (1965)
Lyrics
Contesto: Do what you want to do,
And go where you're going to.
Think for yourself
'Cause I won't be there with you.
When asked about John Lennon's feelings towards his autobiography, interview with Selina Scott on West 57th Street, aired 12 December 1987
Contesto: He was annoyed 'cause I didn't say that he'd written one line of this song "Taxman." But I also didn't say how I wrote two lines of "Come Together" or three lines of "Eleanor Rigby," you know? I wasn't getting into any of that. I think, in the balance, I would have had more things to be niggled with him about than he would have had with me!
Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Contesto: If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception. In that way you can see, hear and play with God. Perhaps this may sound weird, but God is really there next to you.
Asked for his greatest ambition. Pop Chronicles, Show 28 - The British Are Coming! The British Are Coming!: The U.S.A. is invaded by a wave of long-haired English rockers. Part 2 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc19783/m1/, ( 1964 https://archive.is/ty0cr, broadcast 1969 http://classicdjradioscrapbook.blogspot.com/2009/04/krla-pop-chronicles-program-1969-2-of-2.html).
Contesto: If you'd have asked me that question, 9 months ago, well, I would have been able to say, to come to America, to have a number one hit in America, and to play Carnegie Hall, to play the Palladium, to play in front of the Queen, and all that.... The things we've done, they were our ambitions, say 9 months ago.
Introduction to Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead (1970) by A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada; this paraphrases some statements from An Autobiography of a Yogi (1948) by Paramahansa Yogananda
Contesto: From the Hindu perspective, each soul is divine. All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call. Just as cinematic images appear to be real but are only combinations of light and shade, so is the universal variety a delusion. The planetary spheres, with their countless forms of life, are naught but figures in a cosmic motion picture. One's values are profoundly changed when he is finally convinced that creation is only a vast motion picture and that not in, but beyond, lies his own ultimate reality.