People Will Have Mp3s Of

It Feels Like Radiohead Are Famous, But That No One Knows Who We Are. Which Is Brilliant, Really.

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 Fine If You Have An Interest. By Talking With Me, Though, You Could Be Interviewing A Novelist About Guitars. It's The Same Thing, Except I Don't Write That Well Either.

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.

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 Pitches At The Same Time.

I Trust Microphones, Speakers And Recordings Less And Less, And No Longer Buy Into The Idea That I Can Recreate At Home, Or In My Earphones, The Experience Of Hearing Live Acoustic Instruments. The Orchestra Is Already A Set Of Speakers That React Differently To Each Player, Each Room And Each Concert - It's That High Level Of Uncertainly And Unrepeatability That I Like. The Music Is Just Soaked Into The Walls Of A Room Straight From The Instruments - And It's A One-off Deal. The Alternative - Left Speaker, Right Speaker - Is Kind Of A Compromise.