Colin Greenwood famous quotes

03-24-2025

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

#Guitar #Machines #Computer
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

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

#Hate #Junk #Pages
There's no point apologizing about where you come from.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Apology #Where You Come #Apologizing
Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Inspiration #Kids #Soundtracks
I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Play #Alcohol #Pressure
We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Steps #Kind
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

#People #Want #Radiohead
Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Years #Two #Important
People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Issues #People #Focus
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

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

#Editing #Looks #Bass
Limits are very important.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Important #Limits
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Moving #Guitar #Tone
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Kids #Guitar #Texture
It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Jobs #Responsibility #Social
When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Trying #Succeed #Aim
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

#Passion #Men #Domestic Violence
I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Brother #Musical #Ends
Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.
-- Colin Greenwood

#People #Bass #Bills
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Tools #Musician #Groups
For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Internet
I don't listen to much modern composition.
-- Colin Greenwood

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

#Thinking #Good Things
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Guitarist
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Piano #Lessons #Next
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
-- Colin Greenwood

#Mistake #Errors #Cardinals

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