Top 100 Yorke's Quotes
#1. Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.
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#2. 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.
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#3. 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.
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#4. if you disguise exposition with 'emotional overlay', it's rendered undetectable.5
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#5. I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*
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#6. My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.
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#7. We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.
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#8. I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.
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#9. 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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#10. If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.
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#11. I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.
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#12. The thing I remember most about America is that it's silly. That can be quite a relief at times.
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#13. 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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#14. There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.
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#15. It's impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.
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#16. The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.
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#17. Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.
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#18. My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.
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#19. Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.
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#20. I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.
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#21. The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually ... but I can't really do it.
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#22. 2+2=5 wasn't intentional. I thought you carry a 1 every time there are two 2's in an equation. I'm not stupid, the mathematicians is stupid
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#23. I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.
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#24. Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.
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#25. 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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#26. A character's want is a superficial conscious desire for the thing they think they need in order to present themselves to the world, a
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#27. All tales, then, are at some level a journey into the woods to find the missing part of us, to retrieve it and make ourselves whole. Storytelling is as simple - and complex - as that. That's the pattern. That's how we tell stories.
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#28. I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.
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#29. One person can't change the world. But Thom Yorke can, because he's two people. Both of them are Thom Yorke.
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#30. So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
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#31. I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er
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#32. 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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#33. 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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#34. 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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#35. 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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#36. I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.
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#37. You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.
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#38. I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.
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#39. Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.
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#40. What's the difference between Thom Yorke and a pizza? Pizza's not as cheesy and delicious as Thom Yorke.
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#41. Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
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#42. 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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#43. At the KFC there's, lot of black people there innit *laughs*
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#44. I've been working hard on a new song, it's titled "Frozen Piggy Pudding". It's about how the government is full of pigs who eat pudding all day. Oh look a frisbee, allo' govna.
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#45. 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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#46. I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not
what I was writing.
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#47. I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.
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#48. 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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#49. Technology is killing us. We think it's helping us but it's killing us. Don't ask me why because I don't have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let's all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.
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#50. There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.
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#51. I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.
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#52. 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
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#53. 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.
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#54. It's very hard to dismantle the ball off Wayne Rooney
Dwight Yorke
#55. 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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#56. 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.
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#57. Metaphorically I am made of chairs. It's a metaphor though. That means I am not actually made of the chairs.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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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#61. 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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#62. 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.
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#63. 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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#64. 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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#65. ... 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.
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#66. 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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#69. To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
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#70. It is difficult to make political art work.
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#71. I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.
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#72. 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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#73. Everyone has got the fear It's holding on Holding on
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#74. 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.
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#75. I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.
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#76. 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.
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#77. 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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#78. I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
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#79. 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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#80. Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.
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#81. 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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#82. Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.
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#83. 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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#84. 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
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#85. Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
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#86. 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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#87. Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time ... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.
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#88. If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.
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#89. It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god
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#90. 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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#91. 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.
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#92. I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.
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#93. Silence of the Lambs screenwriter Ted Tally put the art of writing dialogue succinctly: 'What's important is not the emotion they're playing but the emotion they're trying to conceal.
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#94. Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.
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#95. It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
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#96. I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.
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#97. 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.
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#98. People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
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#99. Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'
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#100. It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
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