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'There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star, someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.' - source
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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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Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people.
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Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.
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It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.
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Q: Does commercial success matter to you?
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It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it.
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There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.
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In 1994 we taped everything on video, in 1995 we bought Powerbooks. Our next step on the techno-superhighway is 'the polaroid'. If we go on like this, we'll be painting up our tourbus with charcoal next year.
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'I wouldn't be involved with it pop music if I wasn't aware that it was going to be a product. I always wanted whatever I did to end up in the high street, no matter what it was, because to me, there isn't anywhere else to go. It's pointless.' source
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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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It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.
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If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.
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wish us all a safe journey if you still like us and you're not one of those people i have managed to offend by doing nothing source
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I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.
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The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
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We're not spokespeople, we're musicians.
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It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me.
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The last thing my girlfriend would want to do is spend six months going around America, on a bus. With an idiot.
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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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My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
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I think I needed the resilience of approaching my late 30s to come to terms with the resilience I required to learn to sing.
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'I haven't done enough. I don't have solar panels on my house yet. I haven't sorted out the heating, my car's not a Prius, I f--ing fly all the time for my job and I hate it but at the moment I haven't really got a choice, you know, and all these things. The job I'm in is a job that wastes energy left, right and centre. It's madness.' source
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A drunken evening that spawned probably my favourite track. Thom's one-take vocal crouching in the corner was particularly memorable, he may have been unable to stand. Love colin's bass groove thing on this.