Colin Greenwood quotes

Colin Greenwood is a British musician best known as the bassist for the influential rock band Radiohead. His distinctive playing style has helped shape the band's unique sound over the decades. He continues to perform and collaborate within the music industry. Here are 34 of his quotes:

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. (Colin Greenwood)
If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. View quote
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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? View quote
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I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. View quote
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It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility. View quote
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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. View quote
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In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. View quote
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We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things. View quote
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Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. View quote
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My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong. View quote
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Limits are very important. (Colin Greenwood)
You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way. View quote
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People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not. View quote
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Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. View quote
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For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing. View quote
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I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it. View quote
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In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures. View quote
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Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. View quote
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Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds. View quote
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I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really. View quote
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I don't listen to much modern composition. (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. View quote
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I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs. View quote
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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. View quote
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When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. View quote
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Colin Greenwood

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Photo: Jesse Aaron Safir, CC BY-SA 2.5
Occupation: British Musician
Born: June 26, 1969
Quotes count: 34

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