Quotes By Colin Greenwood

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

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

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

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.

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

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 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.

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

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

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

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

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

Limits are very important.

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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

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

I don't listen to much modern composition.

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

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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

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

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