Latest Thom Yorke Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Thom Yorke

  Kind, Natural, Situation

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It`s a very depressing business, the way politics works. You get stuck into it, but then, at some point, you have to walk away. I had to walk away, because it's like this dark, black energy void. There are some people who have dedicated their lives to living in that energy void, but I can't do it. I just can't go there. It feels like you're treading water too much when you do. It's a crazy thing.

  Thom Yorke

  Depressing, Crazy, Dark

  "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 01, 2008.

• Sometimes when you get an opportunity to appropriate your work, or use whatever collateral you have, for something good, you think, "Well, yeah, you should do this." You're not in any way qualified to do it, but I was so sick of hearing so many unqualified people say that global warming doesn't exist, I thought, "Well, I'm no less qualified than they are, so I can deal with doing it."

  Thom Yorke

  Opportunity, Thinking, People

  "Radiohead's Thom Yorke and Ed O'Brien". Interview with Chris Mincher, music.avclub.com. July 01, 2008.

• If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

  Thom Yorke

  Trouble, Stage, Don't Trust

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I'd go onstage doing this thing, trying to fill this arena that I can't fill because I don't understand what this is. It's like you're given a job that's beyond you. And it's taken me years to realize what works in those big situations.

  Thom Yorke

  Jobs, Taken, Years

  Interview with Daniel Craig, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 28, 2013.

• When you're a parent, then you still have to commit to this concept of, "Okay, I'm basically out of action now for three months."

  Thom Yorke

  Parent, Three, Months

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• I suppose one thing that's always fascinated me is that thing where you're a band and you want to start recording and you get a label and a producer, and then there's that pressure to go out there and really toil.

  Thom Yorke

  Toil, Labels, Band

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Thom Yorke

  Views, Stuff, Digital

  Interview with Daniel Craig, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 28, 2013.

• And then computers got to a point where you could just record directly into them. So when that happened, funny enough, I thought, Right, I'm going to learn how to do this because then I can understand that part.

  Thom Yorke

  Records, Computer, Enough

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• 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.

  Thom Yorke

  Feelings, Trying, Way

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. August 16, 2006.

• The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

  Thom Yorke

  Voice, Creating, Giving

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. August 16, 2006.

• In America, there seems to be more focus on the idea that it's important to do things differently. In Britain, it's not an issue.

  Thom Yorke

  Ideas, America, Issues

  Interview with Scott Plagenhoef, pitchfork.com. August 16, 2006.

• If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

  Thom Yorke

  Talking, Issues, People

  "Thom Yorke 'Always Hated CDs'" by Ben Hewitt, thequietus.com. August 6, 2009.