Quotes by Colin Greenwood

About Colin Greenwood:

Colin Charles Greenwood is an English musician, composer, and the bassist for the rock band Radiohead. Apart from bass, Colin plays keyboards and synthesizers and works on sampling on the electronic side of Radiohead. He is the older brother of fellow band member Jonny Greenwood.
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The trick with computers I think, is to approach old and new things with the same reverence as you would like your favourite chair and not be seduced by the constant innovation otherwise you never do anything.

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

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

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

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

Colin Greenwood

We stuck the record head so it kept on recording over and over on top of itself and played keyboard notes into it to create this ghost repetition melody.

Colin Greenwood

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

Colin Greenwood

One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

Colin Greenwood

I don't listen to much modern composition.

Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

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

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 to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.

Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

Author Bio

  • NameColin Greenwood
  • DescriptionBass player for rock band Radiohead
  • BornJune 26, 1969
  • CountryEngland
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Composer