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 GreenwoodI 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 GreenwoodI like playing the stuff where I donยดt know what Iยดm gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.
Jonny GreenwoodI think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.
Jonny GreenwoodEvery American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There's not a CD player in sight.
Jonny GreenwoodI think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.
Jonny GreenwoodI 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