Quote

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

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
Bits
Child
Melodies
Actually
Aloud
Mentally
Read
Lyrics
Song
Melody
Change
Ill
Children
Songs

More quotes by Thom Yorke

Image
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
Image
The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass
Thom Yorke
Image
I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the?
Thom Yorke
Image
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
Image
In pitch dark I go walking 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
Image
The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.
Thom Yorke
Image
Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.
Thom Yorke
Image
If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.
Thom Yorke
Image
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
Image
Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.
Thom Yorke
Image
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
Image
My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.
Thom Yorke
Image
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.
Thom Yorke
Image
I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.
Thom Yorke
Image
You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.
Thom Yorke
Image
Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don't ask me why, it just is.
Thom Yorke
Image
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
Image
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.
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
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