I’d like to think that all the old Beatle fans have grown up and they’ve got married and they’ve all got kids and they’re all more responsible, but they still have a space in their hearts for us.
And so my music, it doesn’t matter if I did it 20 years ago or if I did it tomorrow. It doesn’t go with trends. My trousers don’t get wider and tighter every six months. My music just stays what it is, and that’s the way I like it.
What do you think of the criticism that you’re not very good?
If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.
I was quite responsible for stirring things up. I conspired to get Ringo in for good; I talked to Paul and John until they came round to the idea.
We are not these bodies, just souls having a bodily experience.
Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
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.
Let me tell you how it will be. There’s one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I’m the taxman.
Hare Krishna, Peace and Love.
I believe what it says in the scriptures and in the Bhagavad Gita: ‘Never was there a time when you did not exist, and there never will be a time when you cease to exist.’
Music should be used for the perception of God, not jitterbugging.
Been stuck in airports, terrorized; sent to meetings, hypnotized; overexposed, commercialized. Handle me with care.
I don’t know how you were diverted You were perverted too. I don’t know how you were inverted No one alerted you.
Through all ages, great saints have remained as living proof that this non-temporary, permanent state of God consciousness can be revived in all living souls.
Make love, take love, but you should give love. And try to live love.
So it’s really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant.
I have suffered for this book; now it’s your turn.
I keep stacks of Autobiography of a Yogi around the house, and I give it out constantly to people. When people need ‘regrooving,’ I say read this, because it cuts to the heart of every religion.
It doesn’t really matter what chords I play, what words I say or time of day it is, as it’s only a Northern Song.