Radiohead Quotes
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There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
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You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
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Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day.
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'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
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My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
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The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.
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As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.
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It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.
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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.
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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.
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Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticised ourselves.
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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.
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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.
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Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.
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Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
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The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
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I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
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I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
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I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.
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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.'
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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.
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I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.
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Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.