85 Quotes by Jonny Greenwood

Everything I know about pop culture I know from ‘The Simpsons,’ and they say the Grammys aren’t very good.

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.

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.

It’s like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Every American college student goes to college with a hard drive. They take their laptop. There’s not a CD player in sight.

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.

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

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

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.