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I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead
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Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
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.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
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It's an understanding. We don't talk about it. There's no bullshit that goes on. We've been fortunate enough to play for 12 years and learn as a band, learn our instruments, and we've stuck and we've worked really hard at it.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead
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'I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.'
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.
Jonny Greenwood Radiohead -
If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
The only song that I've ever played on when I was not allowed to hear the backing track. 'Just make whooping oodle noises for three minutes', was the cry from the control room. 'Bastards', I thought at the time.
Ed O'Brien Radiohead -
I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.
Thom Yorke Radiohead
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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.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead -
'My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel - towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends.' - source
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
Thom Yorke Radiohead -
As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.
Colin Greenwood Radiohead