The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually,… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image
There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so… — 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… — Jonny Greenwood Copy Share Image