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Thom Yorke is a British musician born on October 7, 1968. He is the lead vocalist and lyricist of the renowned rock band Radiohead, known for his distinctive voice and profound lyrics.

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Famous Thom Yorke Quotes

“You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.”

Thinking Mind Hell Dirty Go To Hell Dirty Minds

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“I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you're responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually - the way I see it - your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.”

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“I'd like to run for president. Or Prime Minister. I think I could do a better job.”

Thinking Running Jobs President Ministers Prime Prime Minister Better Jobs

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“Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.”

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“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."”

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“I don't think I have a superiority complex. I have a "you're not Thom Yorke" complex.”

Thinking Complexes Superiority Superiority Complex

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“I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape.”

People Thinking Moments Shows Thousand Ten That Moment Responding

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

Thinking Important Music Music Is Important Things

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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.”

Thinking Writing Trying Mean Art Artist Music Events Claims Access Versions

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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 out.”

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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.”

Thinking Time Mankind Dangerous Benefits Decided Intention West Entering Good Intentions

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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.”

Thinking Art Would Be Political Argument Good Art Political Art

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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.”

People Ifs Thinking Power Sticks Prepared Pits

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“I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.”

Thinking Way Mean Suffering Simple Difficulty Lays Simplicity Complicated Tunes Get Over Simple Ways

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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 imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.”

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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.”

People Thinking Kind Might Band Conversation Best Things Unsaid

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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.”

Thinking World Trying Years Wells War Sometimes Reading Policy Western War Of The Worlds Fifty Foreign Policy No Hope Second World War

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“I don't think young people are as demoralized as the media and government would like us to think. The obvious sign of that is how strong and how close personal connections are and how much people are able to build a life for themselves, despite all this stuff that's been thrown at them.”

People Thinking Government Able Young Strong Stuff Media Connections Obvious Despite Thrown Demoralized Personal Connection

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“I don't really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots”

People Thinking Kicks Fancy Boots Indigenous Persian Squirrels

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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.”

Thinking Helping Hands Asks Attention Technology Draws Killing Ask Me Monkeys Spiders Holding Hands Attention Span

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“Our merchandised may be over priced, but I think it's reasonable considering I only want more money.”

Thinking Want May Reasonable More Money Considering

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“Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.”

Thinking Whole Sells Apples Pie Carts Radiohead Roadside

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“I often fake my death and then just show up at people's houses. They say 'that's a good one Thom' but I know maybe they don't really think it's a funny joke.”

People Thinking Knows Shows House Jokes Fake Funny Jokes

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“Us on hard drugs? That would be horrible. We'd probably end up sounding like Bryan Adams.My girlfriend has this quote in her sketchbook: Remain orderly in your life so you can be free and chaotic in your work. I think basically you lose it when you destroy your brain or destroy yourself emotionally or burn yourself up.”

Thinking Ends Hard Would Be Loses Brain Drug Horrible Girlfriend Chaotic My Girlfriend Orderly Bryan Sketchbooks

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“My heart is a weatherballoon caught in an updraft of a chinese tax percentage, the tax percentages are unequivocaaaaaaaaaal, Unequivocaaaaaaaaal. This is the sort of lyrics you could never think of, loser. Here's a razorblade go cut yourself”

Thinking Heart Cutting My Heart Taxes Caught Chinese Loser Percentages

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“I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.”

Thinking Want Humans Individual Wish My Own Perfect Race Special Accepted Limitation Human Race Casting Affront

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

Thinking May Might Found Cancer Cures

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“Every Christmas people are so nice to me, they think I am Little Tim from A Christmas Story. But I'm not. *smiles*”

People Thinking Littles Stories Nice

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“I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!”

Thinking Terrified Lasagna

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“I think sometimes all the charities are doing is mopping up the blood. It’s a shame.”

Thinking Sometimes Blood Shame Charity Mopping Mopping Up

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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.”

Thinking Way Able Artist Steps Power Media Goes On Idealistic

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

Thinking Giving Time Responsibility Fans Good Times

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“I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.”

People Thinking Made Creative Radical Artistic Music Business Very Depressed

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About the Author

Born: October 7, 1968
Known for: Musician
Quotes: 316

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