Occupation: Musician Birth: November 5, 1971
As soon as you impose Western chords on an Indian scale, something great collapses..
Anything that has more of Graham's guitar playing, I'm bound to like..
Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead..
I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things..
Everything I know about pop culture I know from 'The Simpsons,' and they say the Grammys aren't very good..
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 writ….
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….
I'm always happiest trying new instruments - and honestly enjoy playing, say, the glockenspiel with Radiohead as much as I do the guitar. I think reg….
I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe..
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fi….
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 c….
No, I am not interested in women or sex or anything..
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 wha….
It feels like Radiohead are famous, but that no one knows who we are. Which is brilliant, really..
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 tr….
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 p….
Nothing's more exciting than a day in a studio with a string section - or more ruinously expensive. So it's good to feed that habit away from the ban….
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….
I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else..
But over a period of time It's the melodic things that are in my head all day..
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….