Jonny Greenwood Quotes

I think I have allowed my voice to experiment with the different genres. And I think that I have just really enjoyed the journey of getting to know my voice and seeing what it's capable of, what it's not capable of.

I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing.

A good story gives you more of a license to be forward and progressive with the music.

I've been called 'musically schizophrenic,' and some people think that's a cool thing.

I'm quite an eclectic musician.

I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.

I just try to do as good job with the material as I can and play some jazz as well, some improvised music, and do that every night. Just see where it goes.

If I'm feeling like rock, we'll do some of that, and if I'm feeling some other way, we might do some of that. So, that's typically how I record and write and play music and anything else.

It's like Willie Nelson. You're an artist and you have different styles inside of you.

Growing up in Miami, having these different cultures and being inspired in so many ways musically has let me have a very long career, 'cause just when you think I'm gonna do this type of record, I go and do something else.

I love that I can play around with all types of music.

We want to push boundaries musically if we can and come at things from a different direction.

I always want people to expect the unexpected, to hear me in records that have nothing to do with bachata. 'Golden' is the golden opportunity for them to appreciate me on other records.

We don't want to box ourselves within any type of genre, you know? Whatever feels good, if it moves us and we like it, we get on it and make it our own. That's what we do.

I sort of trust myself as a musician to experiment more and to know when things are more effective when they're spare and when a song can hold up to a lot of different instrumentations. So I'm more willing to go for it.

'Faucet Failure' was my favorite because I just had fun with it, and it was just 10 minutes, and I didn't overthink anything, and I wanted to just have fun with the song.

I'm enjoying the hell out of playing straight. It seems to be the case with everybody. We're having a lot more fun. The energy is going into the music now, instead of all the side trips we got into in the '70s.

People are surprised when they realise that I have sung 'Tinku Jiya' as they felt it was not my genre. As a musician, till the time I don't try something, I don't refuse it. I like challenging jobs.

Andy Chase and I were keyboard players originally, and we became guitarists later. But it's fun for us to focus more on the keyboard stuff sometimes.

Coldplay doesn't have to stay within a certain genre; they just go where they go.

I don't like to focus on just hip-hop because with hip-hop, I can only do so much; with a vocalist, I can only do so much, but the limitations are varying.

My goal is to just be able to play as many instruments as I possibly can.

My musical output has been consistently acoustic, but my taste has not. I love everything. As long as it's good, I'm in.

I discovered that I didn't want to be strict like a German composer.

I love to play guitar. I've never really been the type of guitar player that goes, 'I'll only play this style of music or that thing.'