62 Quotes by Colin Greenwood

Occasionally I play the music for my mother when she demands to hear it and she always just says, 'Who is that singing? I don't like the singing.' And then she says 'Who's doing all that bumpety-bump noise?' It's all noise backing up horrible singing as far as she's concerned. She's not a show-biz mother.

I don't think anything's underground anymore. And I think that's a good thing. Everything is up for grabs.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

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

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.

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.

Limits are very important.

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.

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