Thom Yorke Quotes - Page 5

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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?

  Thom Yorke

  Weekend, Excited, Blimps

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• My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth

  Thom Yorke

  School, Missing, Teeth

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• I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.

  Thom Yorke

  Son, Apples, Ass

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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

  Thom Yorke

  Crosses, Chickens, Knows

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• I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke

  Thom Yorke

  Writing

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• Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.

  Thom Yorke

  Song, Night, Men

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• 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

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• You cannot kickstart a dead horse

  Thom Yorke

  Horse

  "Song: "Black Swan" ("The Eraser")". July 2006.

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• I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there.

  Thom Yorke

  Three, Radiohead, Beats

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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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  Children, Smart, Laughing

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• I'm the next act
  Waiting in the wings
  
  I'm an animal
  Trapped in your hot car
  
  I am all of the days
  That you choose to ignore
  
  You are all I need
  You are all I need
  I'm in the middle of your picture
  Lying in the reeds.

  Thom Yorke

  Lying, Animal, Wings

  "All I Need". Song by Philip James Selway, Edward John O'brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Thomas Edward Yorke, Colin Charles Greenwood, 2007.

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• I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant.

  Thom Yorke

  Book, Reading, Brilliant

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• Nobody wins the superbowl, I win the superbowl. I am the superbowl.

  Thom Yorke

  Winning

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• I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man

  Thom Yorke

  Life, Men, Knives

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• 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.

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• The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious

  Thom Yorke

  Loss, Blood, Names

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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.

  Thom Yorke

  Music, Fighting, Wings

  "Duty of Expression". Interview with Sarah Burton, howardzinn.org. November 23, 2003.

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• There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless.

  Thom Yorke

  Stars, Stupid, Drinking

  "I Think I'm Meant to Be Dead". Interview with Lauren Zoric, www.theguardian.com. September 22, 2000.

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• 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

  Optimistic, Islands, Disappear Completely

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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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  Technology, Thinking, Hands

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• I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist.

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  Girl, Spices, Port

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• I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink ones make me funny like elephants!

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  Song, Elephants, Pills

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• Ambition makes you look pretty ugly
  Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy.

  Thom Yorke

  Ambition, Kicking, Looks

  "Song: 'Paranoid Android'". 1997.

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• I recently enrolled at an elementary school and they accepted me. I am finally going to get revenge on those kids that beat me up as a boy, assuming they are still attending.

  Thom Yorke

  Revenge, School, Kids

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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.

  Thom Yorke

  Fighting, Musician, Doe

  "Thom Yorke calls Spotify 'the last desperate fart of a dying corpse'". Sopitas Newspaper Interview, www.theguardian.com. October 07, 2013.

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