Quote

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World.

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
Sea
Wanted
Live
World
Banned
Rays

More quotes by Thom Yorke

Image
I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
Thom Yorke
Image
If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive
Thom Yorke
Image
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.
Thom Yorke
Image
Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself.
Thom Yorke
Image
Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
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
Image
The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.
Thom Yorke
Image
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.
Thom Yorke
Image
So ultimately, it's idealistic to think that artists are able to step away from the power of the media and the way it controls things, and go on doing their own things.
Thom Yorke
Image
I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.
Thom Yorke
Image
My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.
Thom Yorke
Image
I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.
Thom Yorke
Image
We weren't listening to guitar bands, we were thoroughly ashamed of being a guitar band. So we bought loads of keyboards and learned how to use them, and when we got bored we went back to guitars.
Thom Yorke
Image
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.
Thom Yorke
Image
I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
Thom Yorke
Image
Have I told you I have cancer? It's a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.
Thom Yorke
Image
I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
Thom Yorke
Image
I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.
Thom Yorke
Image
I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.
Thom Yorke
Image
I once tried playing baseball but I started crying.
Thom Yorke