85 Quotes by Jonny Greenwood

I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.

No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything.

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.

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.

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.

I’m pampered like you wouldn’t believe.

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.

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

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.