Dhani Harrison Quotes

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'

You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your own self.

People see my face, they hear my voice, and I know they're thinking about my father. That's OK - he was a great man.

I think guitar-wise, Eric Clapton was a big influence on me. I got to spend time around him. He's kind of strange, mysterious, serious and he always has played such hot guitar.

My job description is... being enthusiastic.

It's funny, because music is one of those things it is natural to go into. You hear it so much growing up, it kind of permeates you and eventually you spew out some music of your own.

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.

In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.

My dad was my hero, my best friend.

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.

I think I learned a lot about not buying into a lot of hype. I wanted to be a kind of faceless entity; I didn't want to be Dhani Harrison and the Muppets or something like that.

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.

I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

I never really saw my dad around when the Iron Maiden and the AC/DC were playing. But he knew what I was doing. I was just absorbing music. So he just kind of left me to my own devices.

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess.

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome, 50,000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.

Websites are kind of useless. There's so much great web content and design out there, but the ways in which they are being experienced are not being maximized.

I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.

Everyone's seen the Beatles.

I don't really plan to be a pop star; I just want to be able to make music without the whole My Dad thing hanging over me, which everyone in my position goes through.

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.

I've grown up around cinema. Michael Kamen was a very, very close friend of mine, sort of my godfather. So I know how much work goes into it. You have to know what you're doing.

It was a relief to be able to do my own band, because I was very responsible for all this amazing music I didn't want to mess up before.

I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.

Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

To come out in the music business, you only really get one shot. A lot of people get to play small gigs first, and build up that way, without anyone really seeing them.

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.

I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan.