Dhani Harrison Quotes
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My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
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I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
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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.
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My dad was my hero, my best friend.
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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.
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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.
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Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.
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Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'
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I was always brutally teased for being George Harrison's son. That was from the age of about four or five, before I even knew who he was. And for seven years people would follow me about school singing 'Yellow Submarine.' I still can't listen to that song to this day.
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I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
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Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
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Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.
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I 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan.
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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.
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My job description is... being enthusiastic.
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I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
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I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
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I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.
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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.
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Everyone's seen the Beatles.
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Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that.
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One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
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I came home one day from school after being chased by kids singing “Yellow Submarine”, and I didn't understand why. It just seemed surreal: why are they singing that song to me? I came home and I freaked out on my dad: 'Why didn't you tell me you were in The Beatles?' And he said, 'Oh, sorry. Probably should have told you that.'
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I can't even begin to describe how I miss him. He always supported me in everything I did. He was a very wise man and I realised at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer. But above all he was a very easy-going guy and all he wanted was to be my best friend. I'm an only child and so he shared everything with me. Of course he was very young to die and I was very young to lose a father. But there was nothing left unsaid between us.
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I did everything I could to not be a musician.
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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.
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