Ed O'Brien Quotes

• I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.

  Ed O'Brien

  Confidence, Hard Work, Thinking

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• Music, at the end of the day, is communicating something - emotion, a feeling, a rite of passage, where you are in life.

  Ed O'Brien

  Feelings, The End Of The Day, Emotion

  "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 1, 2008.

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• If you want something good to come out of something, you have to put in a lot of effort. That involves a lot of hard work, and a lot of blood, sweat and tears sometimes. No different to anything, no different to what we all do.

  Ed O'Brien

  Hard Work, Blood, Sweat

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• There is always some universal proportion, but along with that there are some places where special things happen. Ireland, for example. I've always felt it's interesting to play there. Maybe they just drink more than anybody else.

  Ed O'Brien

  Play, Interesting, Special

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• We don't hate the media, it's just that when there's too much of it we get bored, but it happens to every human being. I don't think we even hated the media by the time that movie was made. We were just tired.

  Ed O'Brien

  Hate, Tired, Thinking

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• It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.

  Ed O'Brien

  Country, Fantasy, Fantastic

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• But for the first time, we haven't made a huge leap forward in sound from our last album. Fans who own Kid A should be able to get their heads around it.

  Ed O'Brien

  Kids, Sound, Fans

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• But we will play 6, 7 new songs each evening, approximately a third in the concert. I think it's a good balance. It will be very interesting to see the public's reaction. But i think when we'll play the very first new piece, we will be scared.

  Ed O'Brien

  Song, Thinking, Play

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• Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.

  Ed O'Brien

  Morning, Tired

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• It's really weird to be playing chords again. Haven't played chords for a long time. I realised I haven't played chord changes since OK Computer and stuff like that.

  Ed O'Brien

  Long, Stuff, Computer

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• For a band like us tracklisting is a massive, massive task.

  Ed O'Brien

  Tasks, Band, Massive

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• What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.

  Ed O'Brien

  Thinking, People, Refreshing

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• I'm thrilled we've got a new single out, as singles were the way I first got into music as a child.

  Ed O'Brien

  Children, Way, Firsts

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• So we are not doing the traditional album, tour, album, tour, album, tour anymore. We're going to tour when we want to, regardless of whether we've got a record out.

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  Journey, Albums, Records

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• We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.

  Ed O'Brien

  Band, Kind, Fame

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• I don't read the press, I don't watch endless music TV.

  Ed O'Brien

  Watches, Tvs, Endless

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• At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.

  Ed O'Brien

  Arena, Computer, Ends

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• We are different people - you get a different take on the band whoever you speak to. Somehow, at the end of it, it goes through the filtering process and out comes the Radiohead thing.

  Ed O'Brien

  People, Different, Band

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