Guitar Quotes by Jonny Greenwood

I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre.…

— Jonny Greenwood

It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really…

— Jonny Greenwood

I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I…

— Jonny Greenwood

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what…

— Jonny Greenwood

Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of…

— Jonny Greenwood

Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

— Jonny Greenwood

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

— Jonny Greenwood

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

— Jonny Greenwood

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that…

— Jonny Greenwood

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.

— Jonny Greenwood

As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

— Jonny Greenwood

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where…

— Jonny Greenwood

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

— Jonny Greenwood

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

— Jonny Greenwood

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just…

— Jonny Greenwood