Thom Yorke Quotes - Page 3

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• I became a vegan because I'm better than you

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  Vegan, Better Than You

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• It's hard being Thom Yorke. You have to get up every morning and look at that face and not shoot at it with a gun.

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  Morning, Gun, Looks

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• I don't know why people called me Tom. My name is THUMB.

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  Names, People, Thumbs

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• Sex is more than an act of pleasure, it’s the ability to be able to feel so close to a person, so connected, so comfortable that it’s almost breathtaking to the point you feel you can’t take it. And at this moment you’re a part of them.

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  Sex, Able, Breathtaking

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• Getting everything you want has nothing to do with anything.

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  Want

  "Thom Yorke: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. February 13, 2013.

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

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  Jobs, Truth, Needs

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• Sometimes we and the members of Coldplay have an orgy together, (Martin) insists we don't invite any women, but I always invite a few. Usually I sing Fake Plastic Trees while he reams me from behind *Laughs* It wears me out *laughs*.

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  Laughing, Fake, Tree

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• Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. 'Hit the bottom and escape' is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me

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  Children, Helping, Cry

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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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  Believe, Years, Grew Up

  "Thom Yorke’s View from the Stage". Interview with Judy Bond, www.lionsroar.com. November 1, 1998.

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• I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma

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  Laughter, Grandma, Differences

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• I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

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  Musician, Sin, Martyr

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• I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out

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  Talking, Ideas, Body

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• Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He's not an identical twin so I didn't care.

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  Brother, Car, Twins

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• Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music

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  Dancing, My Own

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• There was a clown that tried to eat me as a boy, in my nightmares. Years later I found a clown for booking online who resembled him named Patches. Needless to say, Patches is dead now.

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  Boys, Years, Nightmare

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• Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead.

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  Imagine, Lennon, Yeah

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• It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.

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  Sorry, Writing, Emotional

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• I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.

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  Eye, Climbing, Doors

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• Well actually I'm not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of the salad bar onto a microphone and the band realized that they had just discovered something brilliant. Me.

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  Men, One Day, Bars

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• People are born with certain faces, like my father was born with a face that people want to hit.

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  Father, People, Faces

  "Thom Yorke: You do it to yourself". Dazed interview, www.dazeddigital.com. April 1996.

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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.

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  Thinking, Race, Perfect

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• Someone once asked me how the universe was created, I told him it all began with Pablo Honey

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  Honey, Universe

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• It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.

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  Race, People, Asian

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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 certain freedom.

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  Music, Art, People

  "Truth in the Hands of Artists". Interview with Sarah Burton, www.alternet.org. November 23, 2003.

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• I'm actually an athiest. That's kind of deep you must admit.

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  Kind

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