Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives - and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that's as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel. Jonny Greenwood More Quotes by Jonny Greenwood More Quotes From Jonny Greenwood 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 No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything. Jonny Greenwood not-interested sex Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good. Jonny Greenwood very-good pops culture Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like. Jonny Greenwood guitar-playing bounds guitar 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. Jonny Greenwood issues historical wish I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else. Jonny Greenwood listening-to-music listening I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things. Jonny Greenwood ambitious art thinking 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. Jonny Greenwood struggle trying thinking 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 sound years needs 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. Jonny Greenwood two long people Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead. Jonny Greenwood radiohead ends feels 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 buzz work-ethic feelings But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day. Jonny Greenwood periods I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered. Jonny Greenwood guitarist thinking 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 rest-of-your-life hearing style I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe. Jonny Greenwood pampered like-you 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. Jonny Greenwood stars player war 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. Jonny Greenwood motivation reading song 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. Jonny Greenwood guitar writing talking 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. Jonny Greenwood fate guitar song
