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We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.
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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.
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I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
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The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.
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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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If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.
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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
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Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
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I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
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Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
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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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For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
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Phil is a real drummer's drummer.
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You are never, ever gonna get a drummer to dis another one. It's part of the drumming rules, as important as being able to keep pace or smashing up hotel rooms. Drummers do not dis!
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It's about the lack of control. You feel more sad than angry. But why Thom sings 'crushed like a bug in the ground', I don't know. "I hope I'm not sort of blowing our own trumpet, but I think Thom is probably the finest lyricist in the UK of his generation at the moment and hes always trying to progress, as we as musicians try to do ourselves. Theres this nice relationship between the lyrics and the music.
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I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.
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And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.
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But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.
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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
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Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.
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People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.
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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
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This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.