Top 100 Yorke Quotes
#1. Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love.
Thom Yorke
#2. I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.
Thom Yorke
#3. 15 Step is about how if you have mental illness and try to dance you look very funny. Whenever you see me dancing on stage, I'm imitating the mentally ill.
Thom Yorke
#4. Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on
Thom Yorke
#5. 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.
Thom Yorke
#6. I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
Thom Yorke
#7. It is difficult to make political art work.
Thom Yorke
#8. To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
Thom Yorke
#11. It's the devil's way now There is no way out You can scream and you can shout It is too late now
Thom Yorke
#12. I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.
Thom Yorke
#13. Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music
Thom Yorke
#14. Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the bathroom.
Thom Yorke
#15. Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself.
Thom Yorke
#16. I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.
Thom Yorke
#17. Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*
Thom Yorke
#18. There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
Thom Yorke
#19. The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
Thom Yorke
#20. Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them.
Thom Yorke
#21. If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
Thom Yorke
#22. 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.
Thom Yorke
#23. If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
Thom Yorke
#24. 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
Thom Yorke
#25. 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.
Thom Yorke
#26. Look at that fat kid, in the audience. You want some pie you little fatty? I strongly dislike fat kids. Security, please remove him, that fat kid, over there, by the pies.
Thom Yorke
#27. There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.
Thom Yorke
#29. Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.
Thom Yorke
#30. When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.
Thom Yorke
#31. And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps
Thom Yorke
#32. I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
Thom Yorke
#33. People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
Thom Yorke
#34. 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
Thom Yorke
#35. 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.
Thom Yorke
#36. The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#37. I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#38. I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.
Thom Yorke
#39. In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I'm amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life
Thom Yorke
#40. Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I'd take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.
Thom Yorke
#41. The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James A. Yorke
#42. I want to be alone and I want people to notice me - both at the same time
Thom Yorke
#43. Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.
Thom Yorke
#44. Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
Thom Yorke
#45. If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.
Thom Yorke
#46. I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.
Thom Yorke
#47. Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.
Thom Yorke
#48. I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful
Thom Yorke
#49. How come I end up where I started? How come I end up where I went wrong? You used to be alright What happened?
Thom Yorke
#50. If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
Thom Yorke
#51. 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.
Thom Yorke
#52. Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.
Thom Yorke
#53. My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.
Thom Yorke
#54. I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke
#55. It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!
Thom Yorke
#56. He had been born thrifty which was fortunate, for he was too earnest and humble ever to win earthly riches.
Margaret Yorke
#57. You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
Thom Yorke
#58. I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.
Thom Yorke
#59. Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United
Dwight Yorke
#60. There's an upside to the digital thing from my point of view because I find that I have access to all this wacky, weird-ass dance-music stuff that I just can't go into a shop and buy on vinyl.
Thom Yorke
#61. If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive
Thom Yorke
#63. 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.
Thom Yorke
#64. 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.
Thom Yorke
#65. I tell you what's really ridiculous
going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.
Thom Yorke
#66. I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
Thom Yorke
#67. I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
Thom Yorke
#69. One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.
Thom Yorke
#70. 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.
Thom Yorke
#71. I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.
Thom Yorke
#72. Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
Thom Yorke
#73. I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.
Thom Yorke
#74. No-one inspired me growing up more than Thom Yorke. I was eleven when the obsession hit hard and I'm still such a huge fan.
Stacey King
#75. Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.
Thom Yorke
#76. I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.
Thom Yorke
#77. I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours
Thom Yorke
#78. 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.
Thom Yorke
#79. This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.
Thom Yorke
#80. I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was taken from the radio because -suddenly being a parent- I'd be confronted by the radio giving a news report every hour of the day.
Thom Yorke
#81. Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey
Thom Yorke
#82. At a better pace Slower and more calculated No chance of escape
Thom Yorke
#83. I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.
Thom Yorke
#84. 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.
Thom Yorke
#85. Like accidents, marriages result because those involved happen to arrive at what might be the wrong place, at the same time.
Margaret Yorke
#86. It's very hard to dismantle the ball off Wayne Rooney
Dwight Yorke
#87. It's maybe a good thing to try to make music that feels reassuring in some ways - something that's got a good feeling, a good vibe about it.
Thom Yorke
#88. 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.
Thom Yorke
#89. I became a vegan because I'm better than you
Thom Yorke
#90. 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
Thom Yorke
#91. When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#92. ... the midpoint of each film is the moment when each protagonist embraces for the first time the quality they will need to become complete and finish their story. It's when they discover a truth about themselves.
John Yorke
#93. It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
Thom Yorke
#94. 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
Thom Yorke
#95. Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'
Thom Yorke
#96. People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
Thom Yorke
#97. If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.
Thom Yorke
#98. I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.
Thom Yorke
#99. I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god.
Thom Yorke
#100. Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me
Thom Yorke
