Colin Greenwood Quotes
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In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
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I don't listen to much modern composition.
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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.
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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.
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Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.
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It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.
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If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Limits are very important.
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I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
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You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.
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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?
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We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
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I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
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Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
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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.
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Phil is a real drummer's drummer.
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For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
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I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.
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People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.