Colin Greenwood Quotes

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

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#2. Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

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#3. Limits are very important.

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#4. 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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#5. 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.

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

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

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#8. 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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#9. I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

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#10. Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

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#11. When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

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#12. For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

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#13. I don't listen to much modern composition.

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

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#15. There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

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#16. 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.

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#17. People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

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#18. Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

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#19. 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.

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#20. I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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#21. It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

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#22. It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

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

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#24. A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

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#25. 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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#26. I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

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#28. I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

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#29. Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

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#30. 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.

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

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#32. Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

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

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#34. One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

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#35. The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

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#36. 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?

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#37. If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

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

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#39. 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.

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#40. To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

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#41. As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

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#42. You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

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