Jonny Greenwood Quotes

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• When people say you're doing something radical in rock or dance music, I'm not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It's like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Rocks, Dancing, People

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• No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

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  Sex, Not Interested

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• Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good.

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  Culture, Pops, Very Good

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• I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

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  Listening, Listening To Music

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• 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. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

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  Issues, Historical, Wish

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

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  Guitar, Guitar Playing, Bounds

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• I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

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  Believe, Like You, Pampered

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• Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

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  Radiohead, Ends, Feels

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• I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

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  Art, Thinking, Ambitious

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• I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

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  Thinking, Guitarist

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I fell in love with electronics, which for me was the terra incognita, because I had never heard such sounds. If you'd asked me 50 years ago, I would have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.

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  Years, Sound, Needs

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• The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

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  Two, Different, Unusual

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses.

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  Chords, Scales, Collapse

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written - but not really of how they played. So I'd daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.

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  Song, Jealous, Kids

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

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  Periods

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• It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

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  Who We Are, Brilliant, Radiohead

  "Sound and fury" by Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2000.

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• I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think regular touring has forced me to play the guitar more than anything else, which is why I'm probably most confident playing that. And whist I'd be lost if I couldn't play it too, I dislike the totemic worship of the thing... magazines, collectors, and so on. I enjoy struggling with instruments I can't really play.

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  Struggle, Thinking, Trying

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

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  Believe, Hype, Criticism

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• I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

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  Two, Long, People

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• I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

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  Disappointment, Thinking, People

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• I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

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  Writing, Too Much

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• I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.

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  Writing, Guitar, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

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  Work Ethic, Feelings, Buzz

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• Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.

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  Style, Hearing, Rest Of Your Life

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

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  Fifteen, Cassettes

  "Dithering: Jonny Greenwood". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2009.

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