Tag Archives: Jonny Greenwood

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

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

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

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful. Jonny Greenwood

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

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

It's what the Pixies always said about music – they were writing songs and just trying not to be boring. That was their main motivation and it worked for them. I remember reading that and thinking that was the way to do it. Jonny Greenwood

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

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

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