Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world. Jonny Greenwood More Quotes by Jonny Greenwood More Quotes From Jonny Greenwood 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. Jonny Greenwood jealoussongkids I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles. Jonny Greenwood cassettesfifteen Rock music is quite big in India - but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords. Jonny Greenwood drummingrocksindia I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares. Jonny Greenwood fakeplaytree I think I'll always feel a little in awe whenever I see someone in their 20s or 30s carrying a cello or violin case - because I know, if they're doing it professionally, how many years of practice have gone into being able to make music with them. And the sounds they can make just hit me very hard, and feel full of limitless complexity. Jonny Greenwood limitlesscomplexitythinking 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. Jonny Greenwood unusualdifferenttwo 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. Jonny Greenwood soundworrywriting 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. Jonny Greenwood hypecriticismbelieve 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 mp3peoplethinking 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. Jonny Greenwood bandstuffthinking 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 disappointmentpeoplethinking 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. Jonny Greenwood nextbandmean It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really. Jonny Greenwood radioheadwho-we-arebrilliant As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses. Jonny Greenwood chordscollapsescales I'm happy to write 10 times too much music. Jonny Greenwood too-muchwriting 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. They'd be strange teenagers if they didn't. But cross-pollinating happens too - Aphex Twin did more interesting things with electronic music than most trained composers, who seemed to approach samplers with undue caution and reverence in those early days. Jonny Greenwood teenagerimportantinteresting 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 watching-tvteensreading I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section. Jonny Greenwood guitarplaykids 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. Jonny Greenwood importantkindremember 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. Jonny Greenwood orchestratunesthank-you
