Colin Greenwood Quotes

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

- Colin Greenwood

Responsibility, Social, Just Looking

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

- Colin Greenwood

Computer, Tone, Riff, OK

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

- Colin Greenwood

Like, Feminine, Sort, Curvy

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?

- Colin Greenwood

Bad, Why, Very, Reasonably

Limits are very important.

- Colin Greenwood

Important, Very, Limits

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

- Colin Greenwood

Next, Piano, Piano Lessons, Lessons

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

Over, Keyboard, Notes, Stuck

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

- Colin Greenwood

Real, Phil, Drummer

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

- Colin Greenwood

Should, Things, Nostalgic, Technological

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

- Colin Greenwood

More, Computer, Efficient, Responsive

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.

- Colin Greenwood

Want, Go, About, Escape

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

- Colin Greenwood

Anything, Feels, Putting, Junk

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

- Colin Greenwood

About, Where, Apologizing, No Point

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

- Colin Greenwood

Trained, Classical, Guitarist

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.

- Colin Greenwood

Website, Want, About, Radiohead

I don't listen to much modern composition.

- Colin Greenwood

Listen, Modern, Much, Composition

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

- Colin Greenwood

Think, I Think, A Good Thing, Underground

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

- Colin Greenwood

Better, Site, Smith, Version

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

- Colin Greenwood

Jazz, Would, Jazz Musicians, Coltrane

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

- Colin Greenwood

Kid, Motion, Soundtrack, Coltrane

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.

- Colin Greenwood

Over, Evenings, Works, Jam

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

Big, Had, Read, Repeated

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

- Colin Greenwood

Idiot, TV, Across, Thinks

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

- Colin Greenwood

Me, Informed, Bass, Bill

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

- Colin Greenwood

Aim, Always, Something Else, Rehearse

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

- Colin Greenwood

Kind, Center, Things, Step

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

- Colin Greenwood

Idiot, Bigger, Need, George

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

- Colin Greenwood

Me, About, Fascinating, Internet

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

- Colin Greenwood

More, Other, Separate, Textures

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

Innovation, Think, Otherwise, Favourite

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