Colin Greenwood Quotes & Sayings

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before. — Colin Greenwood

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

You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar. — Colin Greenwood

Phil is a real drummer's drummer. — Colin Greenwood

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

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

Limits are very important. — Colin Greenwood

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Colin Greenwood

I don't listen to much modern composition. — Colin Greenwood

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

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

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way. — Colin Greenwood

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake. — Colin Greenwood

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. — Colin Greenwood

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

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

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

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

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

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

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it. — Colin Greenwood

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

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. — Colin Greenwood

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

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool. — Colin Greenwood

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

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music. — Colin Greenwood

I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol. — Colin Greenwood

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

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

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

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother. — Colin Greenwood

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

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it. — Colin Greenwood

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

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. — Colin Greenwood

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of weapon, is of far less importance to the outcome than the passion generated in the attacker. The man who has lost control will cause serious injuries in many cases, quite irrespective of the weapon he uses and regardless of the certainty of detections and punishment. — Colin Greenwood

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

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

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. — Colin Greenwood