Colin Greenwood Quotations

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

On the last two records, Thom was definitely looking for other instruments to give him voices rather than have his own voice at the front.

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

I think that we're not reclusive at all.

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.

The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.

Limits are very important.

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.

You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.