Thom Yorke Quotes

I'm not taking things quite so seriously as before. Especially myself.

It will be only a matter of time before the music business establishment completely folds.

Everyone has got the fear It's holding on It's holding on.

My name may be Thom Yorke, but only I can call me Thom Yorke.

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody.

Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.

Don't get any big ideas They're not gonna happen.

And I'm sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.

It's the Devil's way now, There is no way out, You can scream and you can shout, It is too late now.

It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic.

Open your mouth wide A universal sigh.

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.

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

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.

It is difficult to make political art work.

Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of.

If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!

They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream

Whenever I meet a beauty, I escape or hide in the corner.

While you make pretty speeches I'm being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.

I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

you have not been / paying attention

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.

Well, it only dawned on me about six months ago that not everybody's against me all the time. It was something of a revelation.

It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not!

i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?

Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.

I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup.

I don't like old friends talking to me like I'm a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I'm becoming two-dimensional.

Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain

You know, it's never easy to understand why I do what I do. For other people, I mean.

The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

I tell you what's really ridiculous--going into a bookstore and there's all these books about yourself. In a way, it feels like you're already dead.

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.

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."