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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.

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Dhani Harrison
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: August 1
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I did the first backwards guitar solo on ‘I’m Only Sleeping’
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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 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.
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Im still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.
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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 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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I was an only child. I hung out with my parents.
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My dad used to say to me, 'You look more like me than I do.'
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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 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.
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I did everything I could to not be a musician.
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Live a Lie' is inspired by recent combinations found in dubstep.
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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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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 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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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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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 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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My job description is... being enthusiastic.
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