Quotes from Colin Greenwood

I mean, I'm in a band, we're reasonably successful, I've got a very nice suit - I'm not even a bad person- so why can't I get a shag?

Phil is a real drummer's drummer.

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

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

It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn't be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.

You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

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

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

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

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

With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.

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

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

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

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

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.