When people say you’re doing something radical in rock or dance music, I’m not sure how special that is. What we do is so old-fashioned. It’s like trying to do something innovative in tap-dancing.
Anything that has more of Graham’s guitar playing, I’m bound to like.
I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I’m sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.
I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.
I sometimes wish taste wasn’t ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.
Everything I do feels like It’s going to end up being in Radiohead.
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There’s not a CD player in sight.
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.
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.
I’m quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.
Rock music is quite big in India – but it mostly just replaces all the intricacies of Indian rhythms and Indian melody with lumpen rock drumming and power chords.
I’m pampered like you wouldn’t believe.
As I kid, I was always jealous of the music that my favorite bands had written – but not really of how they played. So I’d daydream about having written songs, and this way above being able to perform them.
Composers are influenced by all the important music in their lives – and I suppose that since radio started playing popular music, that’s as likely to be The Beatles or Aphex Twin as it is to be Verdi or Ravel.