Colin Greenwood Quotes
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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.
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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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There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
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The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
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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.
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I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
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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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It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.
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To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.
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Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.
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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.
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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.
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You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.
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As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.
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Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
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I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.
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We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.
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When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
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A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
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Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.
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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.