Colin Greenwood

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

— Colin Greenwood

Limits are very important.

— Colin Greenwood

I don't listen to much modern composition.

— Colin Greenwood

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

— Colin Greenwood

I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.

— Colin Greenwood

You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.

— Colin Greenwood

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.

— Colin Greenwood

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

— Colin Greenwood

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

— Colin Greenwood

Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.

— Colin Greenwood

Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

— Colin Greenwood

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

— Colin Greenwood

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

— Colin Greenwood

With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come…

— Colin Greenwood

That's why I love playing shows, you've got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it's…

— 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…

— Colin Greenwood

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

— Colin Greenwood

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into…

— Colin Greenwood

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes…

— Colin Greenwood

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

— Colin Greenwood

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just…

— Colin Greenwood

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that…

— Colin Greenwood

No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime…

— Colin Greenwood

It is suggested that in domestic violence at least the presence or absence of a firearm, or of any other type of…

— Colin Greenwood

The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your…

— Colin Greenwood

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

— Colin Greenwood

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

— Colin Greenwood

I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.

— Colin Greenwood

I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.

— Colin Greenwood

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

— Colin Greenwood

A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.

— Colin Greenwood

We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important.

— Colin Greenwood

Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.

— Colin Greenwood

Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot.

— Colin Greenwood

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

— Colin Greenwood

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

— Colin Greenwood

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.

— Colin Greenwood

People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

— Colin Greenwood

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

— Colin Greenwood

My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

— Colin Greenwood