Quote

I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

Thom Yorke

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
Self
Especially
Absorbed
Whole
Wisdom
Pearls
Giving
Lasts
Cast
Going
Last
Casts
Would
Sound
Sign
Men
Hate
Cancer
World
Earth
Loves
Give
Kill
Pearl

More quotes by Thom Yorke

Image
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
Image
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
Image
When I was born, my mother didn't know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.
Thom Yorke
Image
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
Image
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.
Thom Yorke
Image
I'm the Legendary Radio Head
Thom Yorke
Image
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
Thom Yorke
Image
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.
Thom Yorke
Image
I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
Thom Yorke
Image
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.
Thom Yorke
Image
Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.
Thom Yorke
Image
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Thom Yorke
Image
Women's underwear section it's like Narnia's wardrobe for my erotic delights.
Thom Yorke
Image
And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.
Thom Yorke
Image
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
Image
My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends. - source
Thom Yorke
Image
I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.
Thom Yorke
Image
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
Image
People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
Thom Yorke
Image
If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
Thom Yorke