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Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

Thom Yorke

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
Guitarist
Musician
Pianist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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Everything
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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
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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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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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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.
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The society, is, a dishwasher, where all the water, is, dead chipmunk blood. God I'm brilliant.
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People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.
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Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.
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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.
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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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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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Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
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I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the?
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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.
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I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.
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If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive
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I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
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I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt.
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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
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