Quotes by Thom Yorke

About Thom Yorke:

Thomas Edward is an English musician and the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. As a multi-instrumentalist, Yorke mainly plays guitar, piano and synthesiser, but also plays other instruments including bass guitar and drums. He is known for his falsetto vocals.
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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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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. Th...

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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a cer...

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It is difficult to make political art work.

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My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

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People in bands don't have the kind of conversations people might think they have. The best things about being in a band are the things that are unsaid.

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At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

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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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If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

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

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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 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 ...

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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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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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You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!

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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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Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

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I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imaginatio...

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Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameThom Yorke
  • DescriptionEnglish musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
  • AliasesThomas Edward Yorke
  • BornOctober 7, 1968
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer; Composer; Singer-songwriter