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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.

Thom Yorke

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Thom Yorke
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: October 7
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Thomas Edward Yorke
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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.
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Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.
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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.
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To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs*
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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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I didn't ask to be Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke asked to be me.
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I'm the Legendary Radio Head
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Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.
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If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.
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I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
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The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change
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I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome
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It is difficult to make political art work.
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I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.
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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.
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I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.
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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.
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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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