Dhani Harrison's Quotes
Born: 1978-08-01
Profession: Musician
Nation: English
Biography of Dhani Harrison
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.
Tags: Done, Love, MusicI 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.
Tags: Dad, Music, PlayingI 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.
Tags: Listen, Music, SometimesI suddenly realized that in order to do what I wanted to do, I had to become that which I hated - which is the head of a record company or a digital media conglomerate - and just do whatever you want.
Tags: Become, Wanted, WhateverI 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.
Tags: Him, Strange, TimeI 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.
Tags: Buying, Learned, WantedI 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.
Tags: Dad, Him, OldI was very empty after my father passed away. It was an emotional time, as it would be for anyone, but to be in the studio every day was kind of cathartic and healing and it just seemed very natural to continue.
Tags: Emotional, Father, TimeI'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.
Tags: Friend, Goes, WorkIf you were the first person ever to design an application for the iPhone and you patented it, you would be very, very better off than we are right now, you know? But you've got to be the first one to do it. So I figured that Led Zeppelin or the Stones were going to do it unless we just got on to it. So I got cracking with the guys from Apple.
Tags: Design, Guys, OffIt'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.
Tags: Funny, Growing, MusicPlaying music has always felt very natural. You know, you do try to do other things, and you do learn lessons that way, but, eventually - well... if your dad is a plumber, you become a plumber. It's the family business, and I felt like I was taking over the family business.
Tags: Business, Family, MusicThe 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.
Tags: Dad, Guitar, MusicTo 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.
Tags: Business, Music, SmallWebsites 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.
Tags: Content, Design, GreatYou can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.
Tags: Dad, Help, MusicBeing in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.
Tags: Blend, Great, WeirdI did everything I could to not be a musician.
Tags: MusicianI did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
Tags: Dad, Family, TravelI don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.
Tags: Getting, Music, NameI only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
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In almost any profession, even if you're the kid of an actor, people are very supportive and want to see the next generation.
Tags: Actor, Almost, NextIt 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.
Tags: Able, Amazing, Music'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
Tags: Dad, School, WordsMy job description is... being enthusiastic.
Tags: JobOne interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
Tags: Betrayed, Cool, FatherSomeone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
Tags: Played, Someone, SongWhen 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.
Tags: Dad, Pretty, ScaryYou 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.
Tags: Against, Books, SelfI 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.
Tags: Makes, Turn, WorkI did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'
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