Colin Greenwood

Found 14 thoughts of Colin Greenwood

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

Colin Greenwood

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.

Colin Greenwood

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

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

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

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

Colin Greenwood

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

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

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

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?

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

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