79 Quotes by Dhani Harrison

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.

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It’s not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

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.

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 everything I could to not be a musician.

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

I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don’t get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you.

I love getting into a studio with a bunch of friends. When the day’s done, we’ve made something. We recognize that we’re from different walks of the music industry, and there’s no reason we shouldn’t be collaborating. That’s what I’m trying to create with thenewno2 – a sense of community.

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.