Top 100 Thom Yorke Quotes
#1. Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on
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#2. Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.
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#3. I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
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#4. It is difficult to make political art work.
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#6. It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can scream and you can shout It is too late now
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#7. Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music
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#8. If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
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#9. Well actually I'm not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of the salad bar onto a microphone and the band realized that they had just discovered something brilliant. Me.
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#10. If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
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#11. I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man
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#12. I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.
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#13. And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps
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#14. In pitch dark I go walkin' in your landscape Broken branches trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it doesn't mean it's there We are accidents waiting Waiting to happen
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#15. It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.
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#16. I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.
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#17. It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
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#18. You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
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#19. And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.
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#20. If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.
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#21. I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very
depressed.
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#22. I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.
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#23. At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape
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#24. You do it to yourself, you do, And that's what really hurts, Is you do it to yourself, just you, You and no-one else, You do it to yourself.
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#25. My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.
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#26. I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots
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#27. Jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moonful of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt
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#28. My father beat me with a curtain rod when I was nine, (That was) the inspiration for Creep
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#29. It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
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#30. And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore ...
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#31. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
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#32. You think I have the responsibilty ... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
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#33. It turns out I have clinical schizophrenia. The unborn chicken voices were telling me to kill my family.
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#34. Maybe I'm not the gloaming witches smart, but at least I'm not our stupid liffey hamburger mongrels
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#35. As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.
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#36. I feel like, as musicians, we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.
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#37. My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here's a razorblade go cut yourself
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#38. If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!
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#39. I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.
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#40. Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.
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#41. I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.
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#42. Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change.
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#43. I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.
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#44. Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
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#45. When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.
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#46. There's a pervading sense of loneliness I've had since the day I was born. Maybe a lot of other people feel the same way, but I'm not about to run up and down the street asking everybody if they're as lonely as I am. I'd probably get locked up.
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#47. The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious
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#48. Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.
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#49. I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
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#50. The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass
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#52. Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of.
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#53. Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.
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#54. I once wrote a song so beautiful that I myself couldn't sing it. It's called Plastic Government Cheese Swan, and it's about how the world is plastic and full of government cheese swans.
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#55. I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.
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#56. The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?
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#57. I'll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises
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#58. The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.
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#59. The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.
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#60. Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts
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#61. I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
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#62. Don't get any big ideas, They're not gonna happen.
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#63. The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.
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#64. Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry.
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#65. I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.
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#66. If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.
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#67. And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green
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#68. Open your mouth wide A universal sigh
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#69. I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out
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#70. Almost every song on OK Computer revolves around how I am afraid computers get up at night and attempt to choke me with their wires.*doesn't laugh*
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#71. I guess I am narcisstic, but only in the sense that I am brilliant and tortured as well
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#72. I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup.
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#73. My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play "ventriloquist", only I wasn't wearing pants.
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#74. Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination.
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#75. If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
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#76. Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.
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#77. Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.
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#78. I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race
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#79. While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance
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#80. I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!
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#81. Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse.
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#82. Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.
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#83. I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.
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#84. Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.
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#85. In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The deluxe edition comes with more bees.
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#86. If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.
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#88. I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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#89. I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall in full and walk around the house naked carrying cupcakes. It's important my children see my bits in graphic detail.
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#90. So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?
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#91. I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.
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#92. My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
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#93. They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream
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#94. If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.
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#95. OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.
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#96. And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.
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#97. I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly.
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#98. In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.
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#99. Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful.
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#100. Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets
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