3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison One interviewer asked me: ‘How do you feel that you’ve betrayed your father?’ That wasn’t really very cool.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison 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.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison You 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.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison 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.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison 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.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison 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.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison 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.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison 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.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison ‘Keep your head down at school.’ Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
3 December 2020 Dhani Harrison 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.
