Creativity Quote by George Harrison

“Gossip is the Devil’s radio” lands because it treats everyday chatter like a broadcast system: always on, always nearby, and weirdly hard to stop listening to. Harrison isn’t moralizing from a pulpit so much as flagging the sneaky mechanics of social poison. Radio is intimate; it slips into kitchens and cars, becomes background noise, and shapes moods before you notice. Pair that with “the Devil” and gossip stops being harmless entertainment and starts reading as temptation delivered in convenient, catchy programming.

The line’s bite comes from its compression. Gossip doesn’t just spread; it transmits. It recruits unwitting relays. You don’t have to “invent” malice to participate - you just tune in, repeat, and suddenly you’re part of the signal chain. Harrison, who lived inside a fame machine where rumors were currency, knew how quickly a narrative can detach from reality and still feel authoritative because it’s “on the air.” In celebrity culture, gossip behaves like mass media: it rewards speed over truth, intimacy over accuracy, and certainty over nuance.

There’s also a spiritual subtext typical of Harrison’s post-Beatles worldview. He frames gossip as a kind of contamination of attention - the mind’s equivalent of junk food. The “Devil” here is less horns-and-fire than ego, cruelty, and distraction: the low-grade thrill of feeling informed, superior, or safely distant from the target. The metaphor works because it indicts not only the speaker, but the listener. The radio plays because someone keeps it on.