Creativity Quote by George Harrison

Harrison is doing a neat trick here: he takes the most loaded word in late-60s rock culture - "high" - and refuses to let it sit still. The repetition ("There's high, and there's high") sounds like a friend sizing up a joke, but it also works like a moral sorting mechanism. There are grades of escape, he implies, and some are cheap. Then he yanks the phrase out of drug slang and snaps it onto religious imagery: "walk on the water". That’s not just a punchline; it’s a deliberate hijack. He’s pointing at transcendence while admitting he’s using the vocabulary of intoxication to get there.

The intent is half-confession, half provocation. In a scene that sold enlightenment alongside album jackets, Harrison is both inside the counterculture and quietly unimpressed by its easy shortcuts. The subtext reads like a man who’s tried the era’s promised doorways and found them too small: chemical elevation is real, but it doesn’t satisfy the hunger he’s naming. The stammering clarifier ("I mean so high") makes it feel spontaneous, but it’s also rhetorical escalation - he’s raising the stakes from mood to miracle.

Context matters: Harrison’s public turn toward Indian spirituality and meditation was often treated as exotic celebrity dabbling. This line insists it’s ambition, not tourism. He’s not chasing a better party; he’s chasing a state where the ego doesn’t get the last word. The irony is that he sells the quest with the language of getting wrecked, because that’s the only idiom his audience already understands.