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Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood (born 5 November 1971) is an English musician and composer. He is the lead guitarist and keyboardist of the alternative rock band Radiohead, and has written a number of film scores.

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People will have MP3s of every Miles Davis' record but never think of hearing any of them twice in a row - there's just too much to get through.

Miles, Mp3, Mp3S, People, Row, Thinking

I'm happy to write 10 times too much music.

Happy, Music, Times, Too Much, Write, Writing

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.

Banjo, Orchestra, Thank You, Time, Tunes

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.

Favorite, Jealous, Kids, Song, Songs, Written

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

Believe, Like, Like You, Pampered

I think It's a bit of a disappointment that a lot of people's Golden Age of music is still the '60s.

Disappointment, Thinking, People, Music, Think

Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.

Gentler, Religious, Used, World

I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands, really. It's very old and traditional, But then, you know, so is an orchestra and so is the string section.

Bands, Guitar, Kids, Play, String, Today

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.

Ears, Historical, Issues, Reminds, Synths, Wish

The strangest part of Indian music is its lack of chords: There's no such thing as major or minor, and it's unusual to hear more than two different pitches at the same time.

Two, Different, Unusual, Indian, Thing, Music

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.

Fate, Guitar, Instruments, Mind, Song, Specifically

I was just very conscious that I could either bore people by having the music be similar for too long, or I could just wear them out and bore them in a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.

Bore, Long, Minute, People, Similar, Two

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on.

Buzz, Feelings, Protestant, Reason, Suppose, Work Ethic

My style is so tightly tied in with our songs that I don't think you could even ask me to quit Radiohead and play guitar for another band. I don't think I could do it. It would probably reveal me to be the bluffer that I believe I am. That's how it feels. I wouldn't have the confidence to do anything but this.

Song, Believe, Thinking, Quit, Tightly, Guitar

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.

Hearing, Jamaican, Rest Of Your Life, Style, Worth

Obviously there will be a backlash. If you believe the hype you have to believe a backlash too. Any criticism we get, is always stuff we've already criticized ourselves.

Believe, Criticism, Hype, Obviously

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.

Music, Important, Ravel, Aphex, Playing

Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like.

Bound, Bounds, Guitar, Guitar Playing, Like

But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day.

Day, Head, Melodic, Periods, Things, Time

I can remember soundtracks that you just can't separate from the film - It's just so intertwined, so important. Like the Hitchcock ones where they kind of inform each other and become this larger thing as a result.

Important, Kind, Remember, Intertwined, Like

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