Quotes about Colin Greenwood

August 10, 2010 by colingreenwood
  1. Ed: “Here’s a tip: don’t believe a thing he says.”
  2. Phil: “Likes a drink.”
  3. Thom: “He’s very strong-minded and astute.”
  4. Thom: “He’s downloaded a library.”
  5. on Airbag: “We wanted it to be like “Planet Telex” off The Bends – a start that’s not really anything like the rest of the album. It’s quite dancey That’s cos Phil’s been attending drum ‘n’ bass nights.”
  6. Thom: “Airbags go off spontaneously, so researchers claim. I think that’s a cool judgement, don’t you? Driving along in your Mercedes.”
  7. Colin: “They’re actually quite dangerous things. They can kill.”
  8. Ed: “What would you know about it? You can’t even drive!”
  9. on Paranoid Android: “It’s so long, we have time to make them a cup of coffee while they listen to it.”
  10. on Subterranean Homesick Alien: “When we were doing The Bends, John Leckie told us about this hollow earth theory that John Power of Cast has. Apparently, there’s a sun revolving in the centre of the earth and there are holes in the north and south poles that aliens fly into. We, er, weren’t completely sold on it to be honest, John.”
  11. (about aliens) “Yeah, apparently there is now neurological evidence to prove the existence of the human soul. They’ve had big meetings in the Vatican, because obviously the Roman Catholic church are very keen to control it. Er, I sound like John Power now, don’t I?”
  12. on Exit Music (For a Film): “Soundtracks are a bit naff nowadays: they just stick on some contemporary music. We wanted to be a bit more intelligent than that.”
  13. on Fitter Happier: “Thom didn’t want to have to say it, so we were messing around with a computer voicebox. We really liked the way the emotion still comes across, so we kept it.”
  14. “It sounds like Stephen Hawking is guesting on the album. Maybe he should have been. I used to see him when I was at college, toddling around in his wheelchair.”
  15. (on key words like ‘Concerned, but powerless…’) “Really, it’s an exercise in finding meaning in things that seem to be random and chaotic and out of your control. A bit like life, really.”
  16. on Electioneering: (on Tony Blair)”The first New Grave PM more like. He IS the New Seriousness.”
  17. on Climbing Up The Walls: “It’s quite horrible, isn’t it?”
  18. “We recorded it in the ballroom of this old stately home. Dare we say there was something Gothic about the environment? It was certainly very New Grave of New Grave.”
  19. on No Surprises: “Scare the living daylights out of ‘em, then soothe their brow: that’s the Radiohead way.”
  20. “We’d like it to be a single at some point but we’re not making anypromises. We are the New Labour of Rock, after all.”
  21. on The Tourist: (about Jonny wanting to record it with Space) “But not record it with Space. That would never have worked, frankly.”