Thom Yorke Quotes

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Thom Yorke

Profession : Musician

Birth : October 7, 1968

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.

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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

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Well, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope.

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I grew up under Thatcher. I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Then gradually over the years it occurred to me that this was actually a very convenient myth for the state.

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And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it.

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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

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I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.

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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 think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It's a shame.

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Being in a band turns you into a child and keeps you there.

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I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

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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.

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Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

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Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

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My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

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I went to a boys' school, and I didn't realize that most guys join bands because they wanted to get girls. I was not really focused on that the way everybody else was.

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It is difficult to make political art work.

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The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future.

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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is.

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This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.

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