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Jonny Greenwood, born on November 5, 1971, is a British musician known for his contributions to film scoring and experimental music. He is best known as the guitarist and composer for the rock band Radiohead, and also as an independent musician and film composer.

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“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.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

“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.”

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“Maybe I'm used to religious music being gentler in the classical world.”

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“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.”

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

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“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 a different way by having it changing too much every minute or two minutes. So, there was that kind of balance to get right.”

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“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 have said the future of music is only electronic, but I would have been wrong. I learnt how to produce everything I needed with live instrumentalists, so I don't need electronics.”

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Author:Jonny Greenwood

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Born: November 5, 1971
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