“I don’t remember much time playing keyboards. It was more an obsession with sound, speakers, the whole artifice of recording. I see it like this: a voice into a microphone onto a tape, onto your CD, through your speakers is all as illusory and fake as any synthesizer—it doesn’t put Thom in your front room—but one is perceived as ‘real’ the other, somehow ‘unreal’… It was just freeing to discard the notion of acoustic sounds being truer.”
—Jonny Greenwood