Top 100 Yorke Quotes
#1. I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.
Thom Yorke
#2. 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
#3. I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#4. I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#8. I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.
Thom Yorke
#9. It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.
Thom Yorke
#10. I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.
Thom Yorke
#11. If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.
Thom Yorke
#12. I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma
Thom Yorke
#13. And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#14. I will never run out of quotes. I am, after all, the Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#15. What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#16. I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*.
Thom Yorke
#17. I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke
#18. My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#19. On the downside, to paraphrase Thom Yorke talking about the music business, we're still having to deal with the stench of the last fart of the dying corpse of this regressive vision that America is a white, middle-aged, male, conservative country.
Edward Norton
#20. Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like 'hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke' Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.
Thom Yorke
#21. Kid A is about an abortion. An abortion of the soul. *Begins to cry, holds up air quotes* Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#22. I definitely want to work with Thom Yorke. I want to work with Damien Marley; there's a few international artists I wouldn't mind working with - like Massacre Children would be ill, and I still have an affinity for the U.K. hip hop scene.
Lupe Fiasco
#23. I'm celibate. It's not that I'm a religious or moral person or anything, it's just, if you aren't ****ing Thom Yorke, what's the point? Actually, just kidding, Thom Yorke and I **** all the time. Hehehe. Had you.
Thom Yorke
#24. Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.
Thom Yorke
#25. I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.
Thom Yorke
#26. 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.
Thom Yorke
#29. Edwin Yorke was attractive and intelligent and employed--the holy trifecta of good men.
Tiffany Reisz
#30. Is Thom Yorke there? Oh he is? Well then how the can I be Thom Yorke, talking to you, right here, on the phone.
Thom Yorke
#31. Lieutenant-Colonel Yorke told me you Torchwood people always take the extreme view. We have a saying in basic training: "If you hear hoof-beats, you look for horses, and not zebras".'
'You don't know the half of it,' Gwen said. 'In my job, if I hear hoof-beats, I expect to see unicorns.
Peter Anghelides
#32. My thing is I'd love to be friends with Thom Yorke but if he wasn't a nice guy it would ruin everything for me, I probably wouldn't be able to listen to his music.
Zac Farro
#33. One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on
Thom Yorke
#37. 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
#38. I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
Thom Yorke
#39. It is difficult to make political art work.
Thom Yorke
#40. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music
Thom Yorke
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. I won't live in a mostly Mexican neighborhood. I'm sorry I just won't do it.
Thom Yorke
#49. 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
#50. There are a lot of things I cannot do, such as eat books and read chicken.
Thom Yorke
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
Thom Yorke
#54. 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
#55. If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
Thom Yorke
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. 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
#61. Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.
Thom Yorke
#62. When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen.
Thom Yorke
#63. And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps
Thom Yorke
#64. I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.
Thom Yorke
#65. People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
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#66. 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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#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.
James A. Yorke
#72. I want to be alone and I want people to notice me - both at the same time
Thom Yorke
#73. 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
#74. Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
Thom Yorke
#75. If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.
Thom Yorke
#76. 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
#77. Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.
Thom Yorke
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
Thom Yorke
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. 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
#85. He had been born thrifty which was fortunate, for he was too earnest and humble ever to win earthly riches.
Margaret Yorke
#86. You'll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.
Thom Yorke
#87. I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.
Thom Yorke
#88. Paul Scholes and Gary Neville are the centrefolds of Man United
Dwight Yorke
#89. 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
#90. If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive
Thom Yorke
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
Thom Yorke
#95. I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
Thom Yorke
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. I'm a creep. I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.
Thom Yorke
#100. Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
Thom Yorke
