Colin Greenwood
Colin Greenwood
Colin Charles Greenwood, is an English musician best known as the bassist for the alternative rock band Radiohead. He also plays keyboards and synthesisers and works on sampling on the electronic side of Radiohead. He is the older brother of Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth26 June 1969
thinking good-things
I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.
thinking innovation old-and-new
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.
thinking long problem
I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.
british-musician cents dollars evenings jam playing records
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.
mistake errors cardinals
A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
mother play singing
Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.
hate pages junk
My page is junk, because I hate putting anything to do with me on the site, it just feels wrong.
kids guitar texture
In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.
piano next lessons
I'm going to have classical piano lessons next.
guitarist
I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.
modern composition
I don't listen to much modern composition.
long records release
It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.
internet fascinating
For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.
tools musician groups
Coltrane would do what you'd get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.