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• You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.

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• You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• When we rehearse, we’re always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

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• We try to treat everywhere we play differently and that’s really important.

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• 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.

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• We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

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• Warp was important to Thom about two years ago when he was looking for different sounds.

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• There’s no point apologizing about where you come from.

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• 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.

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• The thing about rock is that people are not just interested in bands because of where they want to go. It’s where they want to escape from that matters.

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• The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

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• Phil is a real drummer’s drummer.

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• People need to focus on bigger issues instead of whether George Bush is an idiot or not.

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• Our site should be like Paddington Station with a much better version of WH Smith’s in it.

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• One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.

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• My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.

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• Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

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• Limits are very important.

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Colin Charles Greenwood (34)

Birth:	26th June, 1969
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Bassist, Composer, Musician

About

Colin Charles Greenwood was born in Oxford, England. He is an English musician, composer and the bassist for the rock band Radiohead. Apart from bass, Colin plays keyboards and synthesizers and works on sampling on the electronic side of Radiohead. In 2014, Greenwood contributed beat programming to the song "Guess Again!" off of bandmate Thom Yorke's solo album "Tomorrow's Modern Boxes".

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