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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

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.

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'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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