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Colin Greenwood
British
Musician
About the author
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.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Want
#People
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.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Old
#Computers
#Innovation
There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Years
We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Play
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.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Guitar
One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Years
#Books
#Effect
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.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Want
#People
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.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Repetition
For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Internet
My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Wrong
#Hate
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Jazz
#Musicians
#Tools
I don't listen to much modern composition.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
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?
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Successful
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Computer
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Guitar
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Computer
#Guitar
It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Responsibility
#Job
Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Inspiration
Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Want
Limits are very important.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Limits
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#People
I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Time
#End
#Brother
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Trying
#Succeed
Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#People
#Focus
Phil is a real drummer's drummer.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
Colin Greenwood,
British
Musician
#Computer
#Machine
#Guitar