George Harrison, 1974
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“George said he prayed, but didn’t consider himself heavily religious. ‘Maybe compared to the average pop star, but compared to what I should be, I’m a heathen.’ Then again, he’s not an average pop star. ‘I just want to keep improving as a musician, run a good little record label and Bob’s yer uncle. Beatles were an important point in all our lives, but it was yesterday…’” - “Dark Horse,” Melody Maker, 6 September 1975 [x]
“Basically I feel fortunate to have realized what the goal is in life. There’s no point in dying having gone through your life without knowing who you are, what you are or what the purpose of life is. And that’s all it is. People started getting uptight when I started shooting off my mouth and saying the goal is to manifest love of God - self-realization. I must admit, there was a period when I was trying to tell everybody about it; now, I don’t bother unless somebody asks specifically. I still write about it in my songs, but it’s less blatant, more hidden now. I’m a very poor example of a spiritual person. I don’t really want anything in my life except knowledge, but I’m not a very good practitioner of that.” - George Harrison, Rolling Stone, 19 April 1979 [x]
