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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

Thom Yorke

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
Composer
Ecologist
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Singer-Songwriter
Thomas Edward Yorke
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I don’t see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right-wing, and loyal to the political framework and it’s corporate interests.
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At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.
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The concept of Kid A? How about the concept of I kick your ****ing ass
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Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop. I'm getting used to it now, but it's kind of just the fallout. It's really weird. It's not a natural situation to be in. It sounds like moaning, because I know that's what I'm supposed to do, and I'm not moaning.
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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'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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I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.
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She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run.
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Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.
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If I weren't in Radiohead I'd be working at a grocery store, I'd be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.
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Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.
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If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing
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If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.
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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 think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.
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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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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.
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It's easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher - and cooler.
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I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...
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