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" Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass. "
People
Me
Bass
" Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians. "
Tools
Get
You
" For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing. "
Me
About
Thing
" I don't listen to much modern composition. "
Much
Listen
Composition
" I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs. "
Think
Everything
Anything
" If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object. "
Editing
Like
Warm
" 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? "
Person
Band
Nice
" I'm going to have classical piano lessons next. "
Next
Classical
Going
" In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures. "
More
Guitar
Difficult
" In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator. "
OK
Tone
Moving
" I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it. "
Guitarist
Classical
Trained
" It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility. "
Responsibility
Human
Looking
" I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really. "
Concert
More
Seen
" Jonny doesn't want to do TV interviews because he thinks that he comes across as an idiot. "
Idiot
Interviews
TV
" Limits are very important. "
Important
Very
Limits
" Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration. "
Kid
Inspiration
Picture
" My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong. "
Because
Wrong
Me
" One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan. "
Books
Us
Effect
" Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it. "
Should
Better
Like
" People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not. "
Bigger
People
Need
" Phil is a real drummer's drummer. "
Phil
Drummer
Real
" The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive. "
Machine
Guitar
More
" There's no point apologizing about where you come from. "
About
Where
Point
" The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It's where they want to escape from that matters. "
Rock
Escape
Want
" 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. "
New Things
Think
Computers
" Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds. "
Different
He
Important
" We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things. "
Center
Step
Things
" 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. "
Head
Repetition
Top
" We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that's really important. "
Differently
Play
Try
" When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. "
Never
Always
Aim
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