Colin Greenwood Quotes

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

People shouldn't knock the synthesizer. It's an aid, and it depends on how you use it, just like any other instrument.

My bass is my weapon.

My favourite guitar was - I can't remember if it was '50s or '60s - a pale wood Telecaster, and it made me a better player. It was beautiful, so easy to play.

I play an instrument that has four strings, and I'm still trying to get it right. What I've tried to do in the process of playing these four strings is to try and understand the people I meet, the stories they have to tell. And then become an advocate for them and their stories through music.

The banjo is my chosen instrument - it's what I write my music on.

The lute is tuned differently than the guitar and of course it has many more strings.

The guitar was not treated very seriously as a concert recital instrument.

The lute I use has 10 courses and 19 strings, which is quite a lot of strings and a quite different fingerboard width from a classical guitar. I use a combination of flesh and nail when plucking the strings.

I feel like piano is my main instrument. I'm most comfortable on the piano.

I played guitar since I was 9 years old, drums since I was 11.

I feel like I'm playing the washboard more than the guitar.

I played cello on my early recordings, but that doesn't mean I'm a cellist, you know?

If you see me, you're going to hear some type of music coming out of me.

I started piano like my sisters. After one year or two, I didn't like it anymore. Then, because I like trumpet, I played the cornet. When you are 7, you can't play trumpet - you play cornet. And something didn't go well. The teacher was too hard. Too rough. Suddenly, there was this instrument, the flute, that I could immediately play.

The Fender Precision is my instrument, my beloved Precisions.

My father had a sitar made for me that was half the size of a normal one.

Before I became an actress, I was a cellist. I've been playing since I was 14, was in a lot of bands, and acting was more of a hobby.

Normally, I can get through a whole show with one guitar pick.

I collect as many acoustic guitars as I need for a specific purpose. Acoustic guitars are really just tools for me.

Computers are the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created. Yet, we treat them largely as a black box; as if it were an alien artifact that magically appeared on desks, in homes, and in our pockets.

I've kind of become obsessed with the pedal steel. It's a beautiful sound, and the mechanics of it are so interesting.

I have a favorite blue Telecaster. It's an old '60-something, which I play at every show. That's probably my favorite all-around stage guitar.

I like to play acoustic slide. I like that. I just... I can do it, you know. But it ain't my cup of tea.

Something people might not know about me is, I like playing the guitar.