Quotes from Colin Greenwood


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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.


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.


Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.


I don't listen to much modern composition.


I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.


In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.


Limits are very important.


Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.


My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.


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.


Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.


We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.


We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.


You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.


The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters.


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.


With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.


In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.


I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.


I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?