Quotes
“Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.”
“Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.”
“For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.”
“I don't listen to much modern composition.”
“I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.”
“I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.”
“If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.”
“I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.”
“In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.”
“In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.”
“It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.”
“I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.”
“Limits are very important.”
“Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.”
“My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.”
“One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.”
“Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith's in it.”
“Phil is a real drummer's drummer.”
“The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.”
“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.”
“Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.”
“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.”
“With Dollars And Cents on the album, we had it as a band jam and I sometimes spend evenings playing with records over the top of things we were working on to see what works.”
“With our website we didn't want people to come to our site and find out about Radiohead. We wanted them to come to our site and find out about what Radiohead are finding out about.”
“You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.”
“You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.”