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• Although I have guitars all around and I pick themm up occasionally and write a tune and make a record, I don't really see myself as a musician. It may seem a funny thing to say. It's just like, I write lyrics amd I make up songs, but I'm not a great lyricist or songwriter or producer. It's when you put all these things together - that makes me.

  George Harrison

  Song, Writing, Guitar

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• If you open up your heart
  You will know what I mean
  We've been polluted so long
  But here's a way for you to get clean By chanting the names of the Lord and you'll be free
  The Lord is awaiting on you all to awaken and see.

  George Harrison

  Heart, Mean, Names

  Source: www.prabhupada-books.de

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• Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

  George Harrison

  Men, Vision, Divine

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• I always felt at home with Krishna. You see it was already a part of me. I think it's something that's been with me from my previous birth.

  George Harrison

  Home, Thinking, Birth

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• The word Hare is the word that calls upon the energy that's around the Lord. If you say the mantra enough, you build up an identification with God.

  George Harrison

  Energy, Lord, Enough

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Once I chanted the Hare Krishna mantra all the way from France to Portugal, nonstop. I drove for about twenty-three hours and chanted all the way. It gets you feeling a bit invincible. The funny thing was that I didn't even know where I was going. I mean I had bought a map, and I knew basically which way I was aiming, but I couldn't speak French, Spanish, or Portuguese. But none of that seemed to matter. You know, once you get chanting, then things start to happen transcendentally.

  George Harrison

  Mean, Funny Things, Speaks French

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• It takes a certain amount of time and faith to accept or to realize that there is no difference between Him and His name, to get to the point where you're no longer mystified by where He is. You know, like, "Is He around here?" You realize after some time, "Here He is - right here!" It's a matter of practice.

  George Harrison

  Practice, Names, Differences

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• When I say that "l see God," I don't necessarily mean to say that when I chant I'm seeing Krishna in His original form when He came five thousand years ago, dancing across the water, playing His flute. Of course, that would also be nice, and it's quite possible too. When you become real pure by chanting, you can actually see God like that, I mean personally. But no doubt you can feel His presence and know that He's there when you're chanting.

  George Harrison

  Real, Nice, Mean

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are quite the same thing.

  George Harrison

  Krishna, Hallelujah, Hares

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• That's the real beauty of chanting - you directly connect with God. I have no doubt that by saying Krishna over and over again, He can come and dance on the tongue. The main thing, though, is to keep in touch with God.

  George Harrison

  Real, Doubt, Tongue

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• Chanting doesn't stop you from being creative or productive. It actually helps you concentrate. I think this would make a great sketch for television: imagine all the workers on the Ford assembly line in Detroit, all of them chanting Hare Krishna Hare Krishna while bolting on the wheels. Now that would be wonderful. It might help out the auto industry, and probably there would be more decent cars too.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Car, Creative

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• If you visit a temple, you can see pictures of God, you can see the Deity form of the Lord, and you can just hear Him by listening to yourself and others say the mantra. It's just a way of realizing that all the senses can be applied toward perceiving God, and it makes it that much more appealing, seeing the pictures, hearing the mantra, smelling the incense, flowers, and so on.

  George Harrison

  Flower, Listening, Incense

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• Everybody is looking for Krishna. Some don't realize that they are, but they are.

  George Harrison

  Realizing, Krishna

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• A lot of people went underground with their spiritual life in the seventies, but they're out there in little nooks and crannies and in the countryside, people who look and dress straight, insurance salesmen types, but they're really meditators and chanters, closet devotees.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, People, Dresses

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• If there is a God, I want to see Him, not only His energy or His light, but Him.

  George Harrison

  Light, If There Is A God, Energy

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• It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it.

  George Harrison

  Would Be, Benefits, Krishna

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• A cloudburst doesn't last all day. . .

  George Harrison

  Lasts, All Things Must Pass

  Song: All Things Must Pass, Album: All Things Must Pass, 1970

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• Throughout much of our lives, our association with the temporary has risen. This transitory body, a sack of bones and flesh, is considered erroneously as our true body and we have accepted this temporary condition as conclusive.

  George Harrison

  Body, Flesh, Association

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• There was this big skiffle craze happening for a while in England.... Everybody was in a skiffle group..All you needed was an acoustic Guitar, a washboard with thimbles for percussion, and a tea-chest- you know, the ones they used to ship tea from India- and you just put a broom handle on it and a bit of string, and you had a bass..you only needed two chords; Jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing jing-jinga-jing. And I think that's basically where i've always been at. I'm just a skiffler, you know. Now I do posh skiffle, that's all it is.

  George Harrison

  Thinking, Guitar, Two

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• Some got rabies, some got fleas, some got incurable diseases from this cockamamie business.

  George Harrison

  Rock And Roll, Disease, Rabies

  Song: Cockamamie Business

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• America has everything, why should they want us.

  George Harrison

  America, Want, Should

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• If your dog should be dead, I'm gonna love you instead.

  George Harrison

  Dog, Love You, Should

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• Each individual has to burn out his own karma and escape from the chains of maya (illusion), reincarnation, and all that.

  George Harrison

  Karma, Illusion, Individual

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. 1982.

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• Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

  George Harrison

  Hippie, Yoga, Thinking

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• We used to send up the idea of getting to the top. John would shout, "Where are we going, fellas?" We'd shout back, "To the top, Johnny!

  George Harrison

  Ideas, Used, Fellas

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