Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
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 they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result. — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share
