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" I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. "
Jonny Greenwood
Music
Art
Good
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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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" People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through. "
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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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" 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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" I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers. "
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Feel
Doing
Sound
" There's nothing like sitting in a completely quiet room, and then the strings start up. It's like when you go to the cinema - the first two or three minutes of any film are amazing. Because the screen is so big. The scale. Directors can pretty much do anything for those first few minutes. "
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You
Amazing
" I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe. "
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" Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the band, especially if it means more experience for the next Radiohead string day. "
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Band
Experience
More
" I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result. "
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I Can
Important
You
" It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really. "
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Like
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Brilliant
" I suppose, counting back, if the Beatles had been influenced by music in the same length of time ago - you'd have to put that into better English for me, thank you - they would have been like a banjo orchestra. They would have been doing show tunes. "
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Music
Thank You
Time
" There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music. "
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Connection
Film
Go
" I'm happy to write 10 times too much music. "
Jonny Greenwood
Happy
Much
Too Much
" 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. "
Jonny Greenwood
Music
Life
Great
" The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar. "
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" It's what the Pixies always said about music - they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. "
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Writing
Thinking
Music
" I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. "
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Think
I Think
Really
" Presented with a song like Exit Music, It's impossible to know what to add without actually making it worse. How can you play along when It's already there? "
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Play
Know
You
" When I saw the Penderecki concert in London, in '92 or '93, I thought there were speakers in the room. It was just strings. But I could hear these kind of buzzings and rumblings, and I was like, 'Where is this all coming from?' And that was just better, to my ears. Odder, stranger, more magical. "
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Kind
Magical
Thought
" It's kind of not about the quality of the art, as much as this is what I love doing and I'd have a worse time doing anything else. That's kind of as far as I think in terms of philosophy. "
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Art
Love
Quality
" Right now my mind is on the people who stole our instruments, and, specifically, the person with my guitar, which will no doubt end its days having Green Day songs worked out on it. A better fate was deserved - and while the reverence given to guitars annoys me, I shall miss it. "
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Green
End
Mind
" 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 criticised ourselves. "
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Will
Always
Believe
" It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful. "
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Music
Whatever
Talk
" I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff. "
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Jazz
Thinking
Stuff
" When it comes to orchestral music, whenever I see a concert with orchestra and strings, and I arrive and there are speakers up, my heart always sinks a little bit, and I think, 'It's going to be down to some sound guy's ideas.' Contact microphones on the violins. I'm a purist, I suppose. "
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Music
Think
Ideas
" No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything. "
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Sex
Am
I Am
" But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on. "
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Us
Today
People
" Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight. "
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Student
American
Drive
" Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead. "
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Going
Being
End
" It's no longer unusual for real avant-garde composers to have been in a band, and for bands to be interested in a wide range of music. Look at how artists like Aphex Twin are influenced by Nancarrow and Stockhausen. "
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Look
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