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Jonny Greenwood (Musician)

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 people

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. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section.

— Jonny Greenwood time

If I'm on a train, with headphones, MP3s are great. At home, I prefer CD or vinyl, partly because they sound a little better in a quiet room and partly because they're finite in length and separate things, unlike the endless days and days of music stored on my laptop.

— Jonny Greenwood art

No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

— Jonny Greenwood women

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 work

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 life

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.

— Jonny Greenwood people

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 you

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

— Jonny Greenwood life

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

— Jonny Greenwood believe

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 will

What I really enjoy about writing for orchestras is realizing that - and it's kind of self-evident - but the fact that they are 48 individuals. It's not, you know, a preset on a keyboard. It's all these people who have opinions and who are making decisions about how to play.

— Jonny Greenwood writing

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 art

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 writing

The rest of the band were basically friends, So it was me following them around and begging them to let me be in their band for two or three years. And they finally let me in on the harmonica, actually, and then the keyboards, and finally the guitar.

— Jonny Greenwood friends

There's the soundtrack to The French Connection II'I think It's my favorite soundtrack. It hasn't been released. I actually had to go and get the film and just make a recording of it to get the music.

— Jonny Greenwood music

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 time

If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

— Jonny Greenwood music

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

— Jonny Greenwood music

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

— Jonny Greenwood think

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

— Jonny Greenwood sin

It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really.

— Jonny Greenwood real

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

— Jonny Greenwood time

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 music

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 love

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