âSuch arrogance comes from the Government. They are forgetting we, the people, employ them. Iâm talking now not as this famous George Harrison, Iâm talking now as an ordinary member of humanity and of the British public. Iâm quite a reasonable person, but the way I feel about the environment, I could just go and throttle those people. I tend to try and turn a blind eye and just do it through music, or quietly. Itâs not every day I talk like this, exclusively to a newspaper. You would think the Minister of Environment would be out there looking after all the birds and the trees and the oxygen. All Nicholas Ridley ever did for the environment was concrete over it. They wonât be happy until we are all squatting in the back of some f***ing hatchback on the motorway, and thatâs the reality we are facing. What are we going to do about all this traffic? Theyâve got to ban it. The only vote I have ever cast is Green. By putting this present Government down, it doesnât mean to say that Neil Kinnock is going to be any better. They are all the same; they switch their policies just to suit whatever is in vogue. We canât go on and on creating more and more waste. The whole planet is operating on the waste of over-indulgence. Itâs just ridiculous. âMoney doesnât speak, it swears,â [Bob] Dylan said that years ago.â - George Harrison, Daily Express (July 1989)
âItâs a real low-level game, thatâs how I see politics. They donât have any kind of budget limits for Gulf wars or Falklands wars, but if itâs for national health or something itâs hard to get them to put any money in.â - George Harrison, RCD (1992)
â[The song âBrainwashedâ] is very anti-establishment, just like punk music, or Rage Against the Machine. And all that stuff is great. But a lot of the time music that denounces whatâs happening in society doesnât offer an alternative; it just says, âWell, this is wrong,â but it doesnât say, âGo and realize God,â or, âGo and meditate for a bit.â And thatâs why I think âBrainwashedâ is so strong â because of the contrast that he presents in the song. It leaves you with something positive rather than just denouncing the brainwashing and leaving you depressed. Because, you know, my dad was very alarmed by the state of affairs in the world. He was very disturbed by it. Thatâs why he didnât go out much, why stayed in his garden. Because he didnât like traffic jams and mobile phones, and governments and war.â - Dhani Harrison, Guitar World (January 2003)
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