Dhani Quotes & Sayings

Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another. — Dhani Jones

I watch reality TV, but unless you have been part of that crew, unless you've sort of been immersed in that culture in what's happening, unless you have been in that concentrated moment, you wont believe it unless you're there. And with 'Ton of Cash' we just hope that we captured all of the best moments. — Dhani Jones

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

There's four main pillars to the bow tie - self-representation, service, collaboration and critical thought. You have to understand how to represent yourself and critically understand how to collaborate and serve others. — Dhani Jones

I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht. — Dhani Jones

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

I do like Peyton Manning. I mean, you can't lose with a guy like that - especially with the amount of touchdowns he's been able to produce. — Dhani Jones

When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?' — Dhani Jones

My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.' — Dhani Harrison

I found out that changing the perception of myself and the NFL, and reestablishing the notion of being a gentleman was important to me. — Dhani Jones

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

Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may travel. Without it, I believe we lose the ability to not only understand others, but more importantly, ourselves. — Dhani Jones

Football is a sport of paradox. It requires reaction, not reflection. Yet you must use your mind to calculate, to anticipate - to think and not think at the same time. — Dhani Jones

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

One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool. — Dhani Harrison

I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack. — Dhani Harrison

I mean at the world as a checklist. Once you got to a place, you check them off and if you love the spot, you might check it off twice. You'll always find your way to go back to those places. — Dhani Jones

We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole. — Dhani Jones

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

There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul. — Dhani Jones

I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.' — Dhani Harrison

I went to university (Brown), I worked as a designer, I competed in Olympic sport (rowing) ... and I ended up being a musician. It's in the DNA, I guess. — Dhani Harrison

I did everything I could to not be a musician. — 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. — 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. — Dhani Harrison

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

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. — Dhani Harrison

I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard. — Dhani Harrison

Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song. — Dhani Harrison

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you. Your posture is a little more erect; your shoulders are a little further back; your style is a little more dynamic. It's about the reestablishment of the gentleman. — Dhani Jones

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe. — Dhani Harrison

Paul Robeson was an athlete, Rutgers valedictorian, lawyer, writer, actor in movies and plays, great voice - a black male doing it all, back when some people thought he shouldn't. One reason I do all the things I do is to break stereotypes that people can only do certain things. — Dhani Jones

Without creation, what are we but stalled in life? — Dhani Jones

I like Louboutins, but some women think they can just put on Louboutins and they're stylish, and that's not the case. Someone can go into T.J. Maxx or Ross, pick out some clothes and own it. As long as you have that eye for creativity and know how to put it together, it's so much more interesting. — Dhani Jones

I will be the first black James Bond. — Dhani Jones

'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep. — 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. — Dhani Harrison

Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself. — Dhani Jones

My dad was my hero, my best friend. — Dhani Harrison

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do' — Dhani Harrison

What better way to get to know a culture than to go there and learn their sports? And I say to people who tell me they can't travel, 'How much did you spend at the mall this year? How many times did you eat out? Take that money and go.' — Dhani Jones

I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him. — Dhani Harrison

I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants. — Dhani Jones

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.' — Dhani Harrison

I'm Dhani Harrison," he said. "One of the last things my father told me was that if I ever come across people who were important to him, I should give them a hug. — Martin Short

The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad. — Dhani Jones

Being in L.A. is great because there are so many weird people out there, so you can just blend in. I like that. — Dhani Harrison

Playing 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. — Dhani Harrison

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

With TV, it's the same way as preparing for the game of football. To get better at football, you have to watch the film and watch those who came before you and played the game, and yes, the first year you come in as a rookie and you're not gonna be as good as when you come in as a vet, and I applied that in the same way to 'Ton of Cash.' — Dhani Jones

I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is. — Dhani Jones

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. — Dhani Harrison

Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go. — Dhani Jones

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

Turks and Caicos is one of my favorite places to go. I've been to some really cool places and it started out when I was young by wanting to go to different places. — Dhani Jones

I 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.' — Dhani Harrison

My job description is ... being enthusiastic. — Dhani Harrison

Human survival is something that you can't see in another person; you can see if someone has that will to survive or that will to win; you can't see that, you can only watch that evolve over time. — Dhani Jones

The bow tie started off with one of my friends, Kunta Littlejohn. He said if you want to be anybody, you've got to rock the bow tie. I dismissed it at first, but later he told me he had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, so I decided to wear the bow tie to support him. And as he got better, I came to learn the power of the bow tie. — Dhani Jones

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

I'm a huge Wu-Tang fan. — 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. — Dhani Harrison

I want everybody to travel, to travel and not be afraid. — Dhani Jones

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

Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really. — Dhani Harrison

My parents took me around the world when I was young, so I caught the bug. Every person is different when he travels, and every travellers' story is uniquely his own. — Dhani Jones

I like a basic uniform for guys. Steve Jobs is my fashion icon, because he wears the same outfit every day. If you always wear the same thing, you make a statement. Then put a bow tie on and really stand out. — Dhani Jones

Louis Armstrong's 'What a Wonderful World' is my ultimate karaoke song. It is a wonderful world. People forget we only have a certain amount of time, and it can all end at any moment. Armstrong and Frank Sinatra's 'My Way' are the ultimate one-two punch. — Dhani Jones

Everyone's seen the Beatles. — Dhani Harrison

If 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. — Dhani Harrison

Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really. — Dhani Jones

When it all boils down, it's about embracing each others' stories and maybe even finding that synergy to collaborate for the common good. — Dhani Jones

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

I was an only child. I hung out with my parents. — Dhani Harrison

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

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

When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to be an all-encompassed athlete. You need stamina, strength, endurance and mental capacity. You also have to learn how to adapt in any situation. — Dhani Jones

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

I always have a positive reaction to Times Square - you've got so many people passing through here, so many cultures, and so many people merging into the central community of New York City. This is the hub of America. — Dhani Jones

I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top. — Dhani Jones

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years. — Dhani Harrison

Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football. — Dhani Jones

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie. — Dhani Jones

Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd. — Dhani Jones

The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water. — Dhani Jones

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

I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie. — Dhani Harrison

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

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