Top 35 Dhani Harrison Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “My dad was my hero, my best friend.”

— Dhani Harrison

2. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

3. “I’m a huge Wu-Tang fan.”

— Dhani Harrison

4. “I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’”

— Dhani Harrison

5. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

6. “I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.”

— Dhani Harrison

7. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

8. “I 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.”

— Dhani Harrison

9. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

10. “Someone recently played me ‘Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell’ by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.”

— Dhani Harrison

11. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

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

— Dhani Harrison

13. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

14. “I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.”

— Dhani Harrison

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

— Dhani Harrison

16. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

17. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

18. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

19. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

20. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

21. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

22. “I did everything I could to not be a musician.”

— Dhani Harrison

23. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

24. “I don’t ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.”

— Dhani Harrison

25. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

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

— Dhani Harrison

27. “Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.”

— Dhani Harrison

28. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

29. “One interviewer asked me: ‘How do you feel that you’ve betrayed your father?’ That wasn’t really very cool.”

— Dhani Harrison

30. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

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

— Dhani Harrison

32. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

33. “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.”

— Dhani Harrison

34. “Everyone’s seen the Beatles.”

— Dhani Harrison

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

— Dhani Harrison