Top 30 Colin Greenwood Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I mean, I’m in a band, we’re reasonably successful, I’ve got a very nice suit – I’m not even a bad person- so why can’t I get a shag?”

— Colin Greenwood

2. “I’m going to have classical piano lessons next.”

— Colin Greenwood

3. “We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.”

— Colin Greenwood

4. “That’s why I love playing shows, you’ve got thousands of people sharing their personal passion for the music with each other, it’s such a wonderful thing to be able to curate.”

— Colin Greenwood

5. “Limits are very important.”

— Colin Greenwood

6. “If you’re working on a computer and you’re editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.”

— Colin Greenwood

7. “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.”

— Colin Greenwood

8. “In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.”

— Colin Greenwood

9. “In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.”

— Colin Greenwood

10. “As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.”

— Colin Greenwood

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

— Colin Greenwood

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

— Colin Greenwood

13. “Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.”

— Colin Greenwood

14. “A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.”

— Colin Greenwood

15. “There’s no point apologizing about where you come from.”

— Colin Greenwood

16. “I’ve seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother’s the more musical one really.”

— Colin Greenwood

17. “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.”

— Colin Greenwood

18. “I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.”

— Colin Greenwood

19. “Coltrane would do what you’d get a Roland Pro Tools module to do but with a group of jazz musicians.”

— Colin Greenwood

20. “You should approach technological things in a nostalgic way.”

— Colin Greenwood

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

— Colin Greenwood

22. “I don’t think anything’s underground anymore. And I think that’s a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.”

— Colin Greenwood

23. “I don’t listen to much modern composition.”

— Colin Greenwood

24. “To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool.”

— Colin Greenwood

25. “It would be really nice to be able to put out releases that wouldn’t be conditional upon an album format, and just put out music in different ways.”

— Colin Greenwood

26. “The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.”

— Colin Greenwood

27. “It’s a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.”

— Colin Greenwood

28. “For me that’s what’s fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.”

— Colin Greenwood

29. “Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.”

— Colin Greenwood

30. “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.”

— Colin Greenwood

31. “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.”

— Colin Greenwood

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

— Colin Greenwood

33. “It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it.”

— Colin Greenwood

34. “I tend to play better in the studio, no pressures, just sheer volume and alcohol.”

— Colin Greenwood