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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.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead
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Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
Probably our biggest criticism of ourselves is we think too much. We all went to university and have never thought there was anything wrong with thinking too much.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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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.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
Thom's a really great guitarist. He plays terrific rhythm, but he doesn't like to talk about it because he thinks he sounds like Brian May. He grew up with Queen. There were times when we've been competitive, but we've got this really nice situation where if one guitarist doesn't play in a song, we're okay with it. We can really chill out and enjoy it.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
'Initially when it came up I tried to be pragmatic. But Blair has no environmental credentials as far as I'm concerned. I came out of that whole period just thinking, I don't want to get involved directly, it's poison. I'll just shout my mouth off from the sidelines.' - source
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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The vocal parts are really interesting because it's the first album that we - as a band - haven't been aware of what Thom's singing about. He didn't talk about his lyrics.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead
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My style is so tightly tied in with our songs that I don't think you could even ask me to quit Radiohead and play guitar for another band. I don't think I could do it. It would probably reveal me to be the bluffer that I believe I am. That's how it feels. I wouldn't have the confidence to do anything but this.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.
Thom Yorke Radiohead