A.S.A. Harrison Quotes

Sounds are vibrations and the more you can put into that vibration, the more you can get out, action and reaction, that's the thing to tell the people.

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

I have suffered for this book; now it's your turn.

Prayer is to vibrate, do the devotion, whatever it is, to whoever you believe in, Christ or Buddha or Krishna or any of them. You get the response depending on how much you need it.

I consider myself perfectly normal, and I don't know of any part of my life that would be so unusual as to interest the idly curious.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

When somebody does something which everybody really wants to do, then it makes everyone else try a little bit harder and strive for something better, and it's good.

With most of the people you just communicate you don't have to talk.

We're as much influenced by everybody else as they are by us, if they are. It's just all a part of the big thing.

The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it.

It would be great if everyone chanted Hare Krishna. Everybody would benefit by doing it.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

You can actually see God, and Hear Him, play with Him. It might sound crazy, but He is actually there.

My sweet Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hallelujah. My, my Lord, hare krishna.

I've got my mind set on you. But it's gonna take money, a whole lot of spending money, it's gonna take plenty of money.

You've got as many lives as you like, and more, even ones you don't want.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

Hallelujah and Hare Krishna are quite the same thing.

I don't want to be like you. I look for the pure of heart, and the ones that have made a start.

A mind that wants to wander around a corner is an un-wise mind. Now, is, be here now.

I guess that's the business of devotees - to make you think of God.

If God is unlimited, then He can appear in any form, whichever way He likes to appear.

I want to be successful, not famous.

The greatest thing anyone can give humanity is God consciousness.

Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly.

If I had half a chance, I'd put acid in the Government's tea.

Stop thinking that if Britain or America or Russia or the West or whatever becomes superior, then we'll beat them, and then we'll all have a rest and live happily ever after. That doesn't work.

Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

America has everything, why should they want us.

The microscopes that magnified the tears, studied warts and all. Still life flows on.

Vrndavana is one of the holiest cities in India. Everyone, everywhere, chants Hare Krishna. It was my most fantastic experience.

I'm pessimistic about the future of the planet. These big guys don't realize for everything they do, there's a reaction. You have to pay. That's karma.

Actually I have been singing since I was a kid.

But we were doing plays and movies which I had nothing to do with other than being a producer, and I don't have that kind of interest or time any more.

Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs.

I had done a lot of plays, particularly at my own theater in LA, and it was the first time in my theatrical life where I didn't feel that my role was also to keep everybody else working hard.

There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.

When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.

You either are or you're not.

I don't think there is much American music.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I think there are influences that you open the door to, and influences that come under the door.

I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

The piece that had a large influence on me was Turangalila.

One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.

When I dealt with set theory, I could never make it be the music that I wanted.

My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.