Thom Yorke quotes

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
-- Thom Yorke

#Music #Thinking #Important

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.
-- Thom Yorke

#Talking #Issues #People

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time
-- Thom Yorke

#People #Want #Notice Me

When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."
-- Thom Yorke

#Parent #Months #Three

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

#Believe #Years #States

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

#Jobs #Taken #Years

If you want to be entertained, go and see Hanson.
-- Thom Yorke

#Want

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

#Views #Stuff #Digital

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

#Music #Art #Interesting

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.
-- Thom Yorke

#Band #Want #Pressure

I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.
-- Thom Yorke

#Reading #Book #Brilliant

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

#Records #Computer #Enough

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.
-- Thom Yorke

#Car #Chocolate #Ruins

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
-- Thom Yorke

#Trouble #Stage

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*
-- Thom Yorke

#Beach #Bird #Heaven

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

#Feelings #Trying #Way

I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.
-- Thom Yorke

#Thinking #Artist #Imagination

The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.
-- Thom Yorke

#Voice #Creating #Giving

We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
-- Thom Yorke

#Guitar #Bored #Listening

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.
-- Thom Yorke

#Ideas #America #Issues

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.
-- Thom Yorke

#Monday #Mean #Night

It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
-- Thom Yorke

#Miserable #Easy

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

#Musician #Sin #Martyr

Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them.
-- Thom Yorke

#Kids #Eye #Silence

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.
-- Thom Yorke

#Guitar #Looks #Sometimes

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.
-- Thom Yorke

#Jobs #Needs #Telling The Truth

Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
-- Thom Yorke

#Senior #Fun #Hate

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.
-- Thom Yorke

#Records #Bees #November

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.
-- Thom Yorke

#Cutting #Men #Mtv

I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.
-- Thom Yorke

#Thinking #Blood #Charity

Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.
-- Thom Yorke

#Want

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
-- Thom Yorke

#Home #Humour #Juvenile

Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.
-- Thom Yorke

#Children #Band #Turns

People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.
-- Thom Yorke

#Thinking #People #Might

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.
-- Thom Yorke

#Song #War #Stupid

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.
-- Thom Yorke

#Son #Age #Want

Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.
-- Thom Yorke

#Girlfriend #Thinking #Drug

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.
-- Thom Yorke

#Two #World #Four