#quotes about george

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Robert Ellis.

“[Extra Texture] was a grubby album in a way. The product left a lot to be desired, as did my performance. I was in a real down place. Some songs I like, but in retrospect I wasn’t very happy about it. ‘Grey Cloudy Lies’ described clouds of gloom that used to come down on me. A difficulty I had. I’ve found over the years that I’m more able to keep them away, and am quite a happy person now.” - George Harrison, Musician, November 1987 Q: “Are you a happy chap, do you think?” George Harrison: “Yeah, I’m okay. You know, sometimes I get depressed for some reason, you know — it’s a constant battle, isn’t it? You have to be — consciously make an effort to be happy and I think considering everything I’ve come along quite nicely. I mean, there’s always room for improvement, but you know, I have a laugh and I feel quite good about things.” - RTE, 1987 “[George] practiced what he preached. Yes, he had a dark side. Yes, he was a human being. But it was as if he was living in the consciousness of something higher. Going through this life, it’s yin and yang, light and dark and he went through all of it. He never said he was just a good guy and we all knew he wasn’t like that. He was incredibly human, he could be really tough. He had dark clouds over his head too but knew that.” - Olivia Harrison, The Sun, June 2009

[28ms28]

ALL of you deserve COAL but i thought of something waaay worse

if you wanna torture yourself more here's the full list

[reality-detective]

[la-pheacienne]

George Martin, 2013: "In a very basic level winter is coming for all of us. I think that’s one of the things that art is concerned with: the awareness of our own mortality. “Valar morghulis” – “All men must die”. That shadow lies over our world and will until medical science gives us all immortality… but I don’t think it makes it necessarily a pessimistic world. Not any more pessimistic than the real world we live in. We’re here for a short time and we should be conscious of our own mortality, but the important thing is that love, compassion and empathy with other human beings is still possible. Laughter is still possible! Even laughter in the face of death… The struggle to make the world a better place… We have things like war, murder and rape… horrible things that still exist, but we don’t have to accept them, we can fight the good fight. The fight to eliminate those things.There is darkness in the world, but I don’t think we necessarily need to give way to despair. One of the great things that Tolkien says in Lord of The Rings is “despair is the ultimate crime”. That’s the ultimate failing of Denethor, the Steward of Gondor, that he despairs of ever being able to defeat Sauron. We should not despair. We should not go gentle into that good night".

JRR Tolkien, 1962 : "One reviewer once said, this is a jolly jolly book, all the right boys come home [...]- this isn't true of course, he can't have read the story. [...] Human stories are practically always about one thing, really, aren't they? Death. The inevitability of death. . . . . . (He quotes Simone de Beauvoir) 'There is no such thing as a natural death. Nothing that ever happens to man is natural, since his presence calls the whole world into question. All men must die, but for every man his death is an accident, and even if he knows it he would sense to it an unjustifiable violation.' Well, you may agree with the words or not, but those are the key spring of The Lord Of The Rings".

"Lotr is all rainbows and unicorns and Asoiaf is nihilistic and grimdark". Wrong, and wrong. In all its hope and radiance, lotr often gets very dark, and despite all the death and suffering, the hopeful moments in asoiaf shine bright. The meeting point of these two is this: having hope while in despair, and even better, refusing to give up because you have to go on despite not having any hope left.

[putitintospeeddrive]

remember when I said I was done? yah. well. I'm a filthy liar who lies. what about it. have part thirteen. or don't. I don't care.

masterlist*

*this is a new sideblog. my old text posts are under my main but they are still mine

[peoplesprincessgeorge]

galex + txt posts = true 2.0

[thestarsarecool]

“I like 'You Never Give Me Your Money' and 'Golden Slumbers' and things. You know, Paul always writes nice melodies. In fact, I don't know where he finds them half the time. He's amazing for doing that.”

— George Harrison, October 8th, 1969

[incorrectplastics]

[moonagedaydreamsofrhiannon]

When The Goo Goo Dolls said “I’d give up forever to touch you,” “you’re the closest to heaven that I’ll ever be” and when Hozier said “the only heaven I’ll be sent to is when I’m alone with you” and when Taylor Swift said “I would fall from grace just to touch your face” and when Hozier said “if I could hold you for a minute, I’d go through it again,” “I would not change it each time, heaven is not fit to house a love like you and I” and when Hozier said “I slithered here from Eden just to sit outside your door” and when George Ezra said ���is the grass of Eden overrated? No one else is such a beautiful dream to me” and when Big Thief said “no love is like this, no sacrifices” and when Jeff Buckley said “my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder,” “all my riches for her smile,” “all my blood for the sweetness of her laughter” and when Johnny Cash said “you can have it all, my empire of dirt” 

[fangirls-just-want-to-have-fun]

new hyperfixation just dropped

[talleryn]

Lucy: you don’t want Lockwood to die

Lucy: and I don’t want Lockwood to die

Lucy: so now we gotta make sure Lockwood doesn’t want Lockwood to die

George: fantastic plan but have you met Lockwood?

[harrisonarchive]

Photo by Mike Salisbury.

“There was a beautiful rock garden, with a waterfall and boulders as big as a Volkswagen. And there was a lake that flowed over a 3-foot waterfall onto another lake. Olivia told me that Paul would come by once in a while. She said he [George] and Paul would leave the house and go down by the lake. She’d see them, chattering away and walking with their arms around each others’ necks.” - Duane Eddy, The Tennesseean, December 1, 2001

[aromanticgarbage]

"you are a good actor so you should act like it doesnt bother you." x

[reality-detective]

[certainlyathrill]

toppermost of the poppermost

[locklylemybeloved]

george: *watching lockwood and lucy bicker* i would put them on a boat together. they’re cute.

kipps: ?????

holly: …you mean… you ship them?