Top 82 Dhani Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
Dhani Harrison
#9. 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
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I want everybody to travel, to travel and not be afraid.
Dhani Jones
#15. 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
#16. 'Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.
Dhani Harrison
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. I'm living my future as long as you're living in the present and realize how beautiful life is.
Dhani Jones
#29. I recently got into 'Lie to Me' with Tim Roth and 'The Mentalist.'
Dhani Harrison
#30. 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
#31. When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'
Dhani Jones
#32. There's nothing better than live music. It's raw energy, and raw energy feeds the soul.
Dhani Jones
#33. 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
#34. I would love to be a grinder on some race yacht.
Dhani Jones
#35. My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
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#36. 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
#37. We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole.
Dhani Jones
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. I did rebel. I was the rebel in my family, because my dad wanted me to go and just travel with him.
Dhani Harrison
#42. I don't ever use my name for anything in terms of getting the music heard.
Dhani Harrison
#43. Every country I go to, I learn a little bit more about myself.
Dhani Jones
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. One interviewer asked me: 'How do you feel that you've betrayed your father?' That wasn't really very cool.
Dhani Harrison
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. 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
#54. Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'
Dhani Harrison
#55. 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
#56. Pretty much any place that I haven't been is the next place I definitely I want to go.
Dhani Jones
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.
Dhani Jones
#60. I only discovered electronic music as a teenager and I still love the Prodigy and Massive Attack.
Dhani Harrison
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Just because you wear a bow tie doesn't mean you're a nerd.
Dhani Jones
#64. Thenewno2 is sort of my little prototype band, really.
Dhani Harrison
#65. Someone recently played me 'Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell' by Das Racist. That should be my theme song.
Dhani Harrison
#66. 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
#67. 'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.
Dhani Harrison
#68. Without creation, what are we but stalled in life?
Dhani Jones
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Football is one side of me. Art is another. Travel is another.
Dhani Jones
#73. Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.
Dhani Jones
#74. I started rockin' the BowTie when I was a rookie with the New York Giants.
Dhani Jones
#75. 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
#77. I have two mini huskies called Woody Guthrie and Edison Guthrie.
Dhani Harrison
#80. 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
#82. Travel around the world is amazing. New people. New-found family, really.
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