Ed Greenwood Quotes

I suppose subconsciously I was thinking in terms of having the scale of it matching the scale of the images. Hence the sort of string quartet, jazz band and electronic stuff.

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.

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.

At their core, when things really matter, people see a need to turn to God for strength and protection.

Playing with wingers is more effective against European sides like Brazil than English sides like Wales.

If I ever saw my muse she would be an old woman with a tight bun and spectacles poking me in the middle of the back and growling, "Wake up and write the book!

The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.

With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from.

Kindness is no virtue, but a common duty.

In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.

Football at it's best is a game of beauty and intelligence.

The flag still stands for freedom and they can't take that away.

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

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

My personality is that I'm a human being like everybody else, just a citizen and a blue collar guy.

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

Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A was another Coltrane inspiration.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

If you're working on a computer and you're editing bass, it looks like a warm curvy, sort of feminine object.

Some people may believe that their conscience is enough to guide them not to lie, be deceitful or do the other things God has commanded us not to do. I disagree.

Everything I do feels like It's going to end up being in Radiohead.

I'm pampered like you wouldn't believe.

I think guitarists are really over-admired and over-revered.

There's a friendly tie of some sort between music and eating.

As you get older you realize how important your emotional response is to any kind of music.

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.

I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets. Only this can account for the fact that I own two melon ballers.

I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free.

Accidents, and particularly street and highway accidents, do not happen - they are caused.

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian.

We are kind of one step removed, not really in the center of things.

It's a full on job just looking for human social responsibility.

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

The traditions of a nation are very important and the anthem written by Francis Scott Key in the early days of our nation should always be revered.

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

I think the biggest problem we have is taking too long over things. Not in terms of getting it right, but sometimes we do things quickly that are really good.

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.

In Kid A and Amnesiac, the guitar becomes one more texture, difficult to separate from other textures.

I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

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.

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

I like playing the stuff where I don´t know what I´m gonna play. Like the end of Fake Plastic Trees or the end of Paranoid Android - stuff where I can do anything and no one notices or cares.

But I believe there is a decay that is eroding America, and as a result, God begins to disappear from our society.

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.

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

But if we get to the point where more people do not believe in a God than who do believe in God, we will have a hollow legal system - we will have something without heart.

When our forefathers put down roots in desolate places, the thing that allowed them to survive was that they had a faith to see them through the tough times.

If the story-tellers could ha' got decency and good morals from true stories, who'd have troubled to invent parables?

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.