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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
Composer
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Thomas Edward Yorke
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I tied a bunch of balloons to a beach chair and tried to float up to heaven. *begins to weep* There's no heaven, and birds tried to kill me! *shrivels up*
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I bought a blimp just so I could get a bunch of wankers excited over nothing, what did you do with your weekend?
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If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.
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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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Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.
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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.
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You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!
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I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.
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As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.
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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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I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.
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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.
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I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
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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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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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Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.
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I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.
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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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I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a you're not Thom Yorke complex.
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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.
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