George Harrison

"It's horrible to lose your dad. But day by day I miss him more as a mate. He was my best friend in the whole world" -Dhani

"My dad never had any interest in releasing them. He worked very slowly and he spent most of his time gardening. To get him in the studio was very hard. He wasn't doing it for anybody else. He didn't care about the music industry." -Dhani (on working 'Brainwashed')

"He was happy and doing his singing. He never felt sorry for himself or went into depression. He was working and doing what he could" -Dhani

"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 realized at an early age I could learn a lot from him. He always gave me the right answer" -Dhani

"But about 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

"And at the same time, to go through my father's music with a fine-tooth comb made me see things about him that even I hadn't realized: that he was even more impressive that I thought he was.  And that might sound like an arrogant thing to say, but, you know...even though I knew what I had, you never quite know what you've got until it's gone." -Dhani

"He was never afraid. He was willing to try and get better, but he didn't care.  He wasn't attached to this world in the way most people would be.  He was on to bigger and better things.  And he had a real total and utter disinterest in worrying and being stressed.  My dad had no fear of dying whatsoever.  I can't stress that enough, really." -Dhani

"Rich was so sad when George died. They had a deep connection, a soul connection. People think the Beatles were chummy all the time, but that's not entirely the case. I knew George as the gardener. He loved his garden and when we'd visit his house, that was what he showed us. He was so proud of it." -Francesca

"My dad didn't have many pals around, and I was his only child, so I was often in the studio with him. We were best friends." -Dhani

"George and I were very close. He was one of the nicest and most generous people." -Julian

"I was there for everything obviously from when I was born onward. I lived the life once with my dad. And then it's like watching your own life back through the eyes of Martin Scorsese...which is totally weird." -Dhani (about Living in the Material World: George Harrison documentary)

"Take from it what you will. We all know how it ends. It's heavy. My dad was a very interesting guy. I'm still learning from him." -Dhani (about Living in the Material World: George Harrison documentary)

"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

“I pretty much lived in the studio with my dad. I was on the Traveling Wilburys’ album when I was eight, but I kind of waited for a long time to choose my way because I have seen how utterly brutalized the other children have been in the press.” -Dhani

“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

“If I was trying to make money at this, I'd have probably given up a long time ago. The goal is to have a good time being a musician. I like to learn as much as possible from my friends and people I work with, to push myself forward and master things and experiment. It’s not a competition. People make a big deal about my dad, and musically he is a big deal, but that’s their issue, not my issue. I've been OK with it my whole life because he was my dad, so I'm getting on with it." -Dhani

"It’s really sad I don't get to hang out with him any more but he’s still there on a spiritual level, which is very much what he was about. George was a prolific songwriter and an amazing artist, very spiritual and an amazing guy." -James

"I’m very lucky– I’m lucky to have had the time with him, and there’s no way I could be where I am now without everything that’s happened. My dad was my dad and we made music together." -Dhani

"When he died I remember thinking we’d left nothing unsaid and that was good. But then you get older, and there have been so many times I miss my dad. Getting married, going on your stag do – pick any moment and you wish he was there." -Dhani

"I stopped being as crazy as I used to be because I want this child to have a father a lot longer. I want this child to have a father a bit longer. Also with a child around, I can realize what it was life to be my father. At the same time, you can relive certain aspects of being a child. You watch them and have all these flashbacks of when you were a kid. It somehow completes the generation thing." -George

"George was always a sweetheart to me. I loved him dearly. I miss him dearly." -Julian 

"What I saw in the father was great devotion, love and gentleness. His whole thing was that little boy." -Erik Estrada (about the time George and Dhani Harrison visited the set of 'CHiPS' in 1981; it was Dhani's favorite show at the time)

"My earliest memory of my dad is probably of him somewhere in a garden covered in dirt, somewhere hot, a tropical garden, in jeans, khakis, covered in dirt just continuously planting trees. I think that’s what I thought he did for the first seven years of my life. I was completely unaware that he had anything to do with music. 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

"My dad was my hero, my best friend." -Dhani 

“I was pretty sure he was just a gardener. Being a gardener and not hanging out with anyone and just being home, that was pretty rock & roll, you know? When you’re in a really beautiful garden, it reminds you constantly of God.” -Dhani

“Planting trees and watching my boy grow up.” - George

“My mum said when I was a kid and someone asked me what my dad did, I said, ‘He pushes buttons.’” - Dhani

"My dad was very alarmed by the state of affairs in the world. He was very disturbed by it. That’s why he didn’t go out much, why he stayed in his garden. Because he didn’t like traffic jams and mobile phones, and governments and war.” -Dhani

"I said to him last year, or the year before, ‘Yeah, well, something something,’ you know, I’d done my degree and I was like, ‘Well, I’ve got a degree, you know - I’m this age’ and he, he laughed and he was just like, 'What was I doing when I was 23?’ I said, 'Dunno.’ He was like, 'What was I doing? Oh yes, Sgt. Pepper’” -Dhani

“He was a uplifting person to be around, he liked things that were happy and nice, and not too negative.” - Dhani

“My father was very lovely when I was growing up. I might have gotten in trouble for anything to do with hurting trees or guitars but not much else. That would land you in a lot of trouble at my house. He was very reasonable. But he didn’t mess around. He was stern, but he was very cool. He would play his guitars and have a cup of tea in the garden. That was the way it went. He liked to just plant trees all day long.” - Dhani

“The first part of his life was hectic and intense. He spent the second in the garden, enjoying nature, planting trees and composing” -Dhani

"My Dad didn’t like to see people upset. He hated it when people weren’t happy when they could be." -Dhani

“Yeah, that’s been a wonderful thing for me. Everybody who has a baby thinks their child is wonderful, and it is. I’m enjoying it a lot and, again, that’s probably why John isn’t working. After a long time of waiting, he and Yoko finally had a child and I think he wants to give most of his time to watching the child grow up.” -George 

“He was happy to play music with anyone - Dhani’s school friends, me. He just wanted to play.” - Olivia

“Paul was around more as an uncle, but in retrospect the most kind, gentle and open and observant of everybody was George. The sad thing was that we were becoming closer when he passed away. We hung out together from time to time in my 20s.” - Julian

“He used to say to me every day, ‘You don’t have to go to school today. Do you wanna just go on a yacht in the South Pacific and run away forever?’ A lot of people would probably say, ‘You’re an idiot for not doing that.’ And maybe in a way, I am. To rebel in my family was to go to school. I went to, like, a semi-military school. We did CCF one day a week, that used to piss him off, me walking around in an Air Force uniform. I was 15 and had some little run-in with some policemen. And he told the policemen to f*** off. And that was when I realizes that he was actually cool, on my side, and not just a scary dad, you know. And, he was very, very close to me after that. And we kind of would run off down the garden and hide, 'Don’t tell your mum’ kind of stuff, you know.” - Dhani

“In 2001, I went to see George in Switzerland in his last weeks. He was very ill and weak from lung and brain cancer. My daughter, Lee, was also ill with a brain tumor. I said, ‘George, I love you, but Lee's going into hospital in Boston, and I've got to go there.’ He said, ‘Do you want me to come with you?’ He couldn't move, but, in his being, he was willing. He was that good a friend.” -Ringo

Olivia Harrison

"First and foremost I am a wife and mother" -Olivia

“Olivia Harrison is a fucking cool chick” –Stella

"He is a strict father and I’m a demanding mother. I shout a lot to Dhani about keeping his room tidy, doing his homework, not interrupting. I’m constantly correcting him. I organize everything in my house. I know each glass that is chipped, which window needs washing. I have the ironing board in my bedroom. I find housework therapeutic." -Olivia