Colin Greenwood Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Limits are very important.

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

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

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

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

I don't listen to much modern composition.

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

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.