“Dhani and I were not quite sure how we would feel on November 29th. Sometimes we thought we should be spending the night quietly, but really it was the most perfect thing we could have been doing. […] But it was very emotional… and I think Dhani was some sort of an anchor on that stage, and somehow through him, George was really present.” - Olivia Harrison, BBC Radio, 2009

“My Dad didn’t like to see people upset. He hated it when people weren’t happy when they could be.” - Dhani Harrison, Concert for George, Genesis Publications

“[George’s] words became a constant dialogue to us. Especially lines like: ‘Beware of sadness, it can hit you, it can hurt you
 Make you sore and what is more
 That is not what you are here for.’ So we tried not to be sad, but instead celebrated the life and music of a great artiste, the beautiful ‘quiet’ one from Liverpool who became a man of many words as well as worlds, a wise and coveted friend, father and seeker who transcended the distractions of success and fame to maintain a one-pointed focus upon his goal of spiritual awakening. He did all this while entertaining the world and having an equal measure of fun along the way.” - Olivia Harrison, Concert for George liner notes 

“It was obviously very emotional for me to see [Dhani] up there [at the Concert for George on 29 November 2002] paying tribute to his dad. And listening to George’s words — ‘Beware of sadness/ It can hit you, it can hurt you, make you sore/ And what is more, that is not what you are here for’ — feeling so incredibly sad and trying not to be sad — taking George’s advice.” - Olivia Harrison, Rolling Stone, October 9, 2003 (x)

February 25th, 1943

“I love these big fields with the long, soft grass, the waves when the wind sweeps through them. How much easier would our lives be if we could learn from these observations? Just give in to the wind of life and not always resist it. You know what I mean?”

“Best times with George? We hitchhiked to a place in Wales called Harlech, and we were kids before The Beatles. We had heard a song “Men Of Harlech”, saw it at a sign post, yeah, there was a big castle. And we just went there. We had our guitars everywhere and we ended up in this cafe. You know, we’d try to go to a place, a central meeting place, and in Harlech, there was this little cafe that had a jukebox. So this was home. So we sat around there. So we met a guy, he started talking, he was into rock and roll, you know, we went and stayed at his house. So it was great, me and George top and tailing it in a bed.”

— Paul McCartney, George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)

“One year, Paul and I decided to go hitchhiking. It’s something nobody would dream about these days. Firstly you’d probably be mugged before you got through the Mersey Tunnel, and secondly everybody’s got cars and is already stuck in a traffic jam. I’d often gone down with my family down South to Devon, to Exmouth, so Paul and I decided to go there first.

“We didn’t have much money. We found bed-and-breakfast places to stay. We got to one town, and we were walking down a street and it was getting dark. We saw a woman and said, ‘Excuse me, do you know if there’s somewhere we could stay?’ She felt sorry for us and said, ‘My boy’s away, come and stay at my house.’ So she took us to hers - where we beat her, tied her up and robbed her of all her money! Only joking; she let us stay in her boy’s room and the next morning cooked us breakfast. She was really nice. I don’t know who she was - the Lone Ranger?

“We continued along the South coast, towards Exmouth. Along the way we talked to a drunk in a pub who told us his name was Oxo Whitney. (He later appears in ‘A Spaniard in the Works.’ After we’d told John that story, he used the name. So much of John’s books is from funny things people told him.) Then we went on to Paignton. We still had hardly any money. We had a little stove, virtually just a tin with a lid. You poured a little meths into the bottom of it and it just about burned, not with any velocity. We had that, and little backpacks, and we’d stop at grocery shops. We’d buy Smedley’s spaghetti bolognese or spaghetti milanese. They were in striped tins: milanese was red stripes, bolognese was dark blue stripes. And Ambrosia creamed rice. We’d open a can, bend back the lid and hold the can over the stove to warm it up. That was what we lived on.

— George Harrison, The Beatles Anthology (2000)

his mind. the way his mind worked and the fact that he was SO open-minded. he truly was a free spirit. he took everything as it came and like he says on this quote he had NO limitations on himself. in other words, he was himself 100% of the time and didnt let people or society tell him what to think or what to do. he really didnt care about that. and that is yet another thing that makes him extraordinary, in my opinion. he was never trapped in that state of mind of thinking you have to be what everyone wants you to be and to hide your true self. he just WAS his true self all the time.