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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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
Thom comes in with lots of lyrics, a melody and chords, and usually he strums it on acoustic guitar. we then take it from there and beat it up and arrange it. sometimes they need a lot of arrangement. sometimes they need absolutely nothing. sometimes thom will present a song and it's so obvious how it should be done. those are actually the hardest to do - the ones where we have free scope and it can go in any direction are the easiest ones to do.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
I think the third album will be celebratory and maybe not so inward-looking; that would be great. I think thinking is a good thing but there are times when you just say 'fuck it'. We're allowed to make mistakes.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
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.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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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.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
When someone in the band behaved like an asshole, one of the others always said: "The Karma Police is gonna get you". I suppose it's all rubbish that your destiny depends on your deeds in a previous life, but you have to trust on something.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
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.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
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Anything that broadens your musicality always moves the way you write drum or guitar parts.
Philip Selway Radiohead -
If we get the music across, then that's the most important thing. If you can still make it intimate.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
Phil is a real drummer's drummer.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
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.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
The trouble with a lot of music in this country is the radio stations. Modern rock - it's SUCH a stale format. As far as I can work out, and as far as we can work out as a band, the music put on these stations... It's not for the people. It's to satisfy the advertisers. It's completely reactive as opposed to proactive.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I don't think we're individually amazing musicians, but what we do collectively is pretty good.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead