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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. "
Jonny Greenwood
Disappointment
Lot
People
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" 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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" It's funny, but to me, when you go to a concert hall and hear electronic pieces from the '60s, I think they sound really dated. But when an orchestra plays a piece from that period, and it's going to sound different every time, it feels more modern to me. "
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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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" 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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Whatever
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" 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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" But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day. "
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Over
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Head
" What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play. "
Jonny Greenwood
Enjoy
Know
People
" I remember when I was in my late teens just getting rid of lots of records, realizing I only ever listened to them when I was reading, or watching TV, or doing something else. "
Jonny Greenwood
Reading
Watching
Remember
" I'm happy to write 10 times too much music. "
Jonny Greenwood
Happy
Much
Too Much
" 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
" 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
" No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything. "
Jonny Greenwood
Sex
Am
I Am
" I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe. "
Jonny Greenwood
You
Pampered
Like
" 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. "
Jonny Greenwood
Think
Never
Twice
" 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. "
Jonny Greenwood
Feeling
Busy
Work Ethic
" 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
" 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. "
Jonny Greenwood
Future
You
Music
" 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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Me
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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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Music
Life
Great
" I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. "
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Doing
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Else
" 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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" 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
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" 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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" If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop. "
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Great
Home
Music
" 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
" Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead. "
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Going
Being
End
" I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. "
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Think
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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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" 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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" 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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