Inspirational Quotes by George Harrison (English Singer)

George Harrison (1943–2001) was an English rock and pop guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He was the lead guitarist and the youngest member of the Beatles.

Per Beatles’ producer George Martin, Harrison was “the Beatles’ Third Man, always there yet somehow elusive.” This “Quiet Beatle” also launched the Indian instrument sitar to British pop music.

Harrison was a devotee of Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s tradition of transcendental meditation. His interest in India most manifested in his solo career after the Beatles’ breakup in 1970.

Born in Wavertree, Liverpool, Harrison met Paul McCartney on a bus to school, and the duo became close friends. When McCartney linked up with John Lennon in 1957, they created the Quarrymen skiffle group with Harrison. The Quarrymen quickly evolved into the Beatles.

The Beatles played at various clubs around England and in Hamburg, Germany. They then returned to England and played at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, where businessman Brian Epstein discovered them. After signing up as their manager, Epstein signed the Beatles with EMI records in 1962 and had drummer Pete Best replaced by Ringo Starr. By 1963, the Beatles were the most famous rock and roll band in England. The following year, they took America by storm with their appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show. ‘Beatlemania’ swept across Europe and America.; the Beatles’ every movement was sure to be accompanied by crowds of screaming young girls and enthusiastic admirers.

Following the breakup of the Beatles in 1970, Harrison engaged in a solo career that produced his top-of-the-charts song “My Sweet Lord” (1970; from the album All Things Must Pass.) In 1971, he organized benefit concerts for the people of Bangladesh in collaboration with his sitar teacher Ravi Shankar. His 1974 recording, Dark Horse, was a smash hit, but subsequent solo recordings were not commercially successful, except for Cloud Nine (1989.)

In 1988–90, Harrison enjoyed new success with the Traveling Wilburys, an ad hoc “supergroup” that assembled such music stalwarts as Jeff Lynne, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Roy Orbison.

Harrison published an autobiography, I Me Mine, in 1982.

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