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Thom Yorke

(1968) Multi-instrumentalist United Kingdom

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Thom Yorke talks about feeling stuck in circles, like ending up where he began. He jokes about naming his son Noah and calls rock music a ‘necessary evil.’ He also mentions fans telling him to get a life and how he just enjoys a random movie like Space Jam.

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Thom Yorke is a multi-instrumentalist from the United Kingdom, best known for Kid a Mnesia.

Quick Facts About Thom Yorke

Born: October 7, 1968
Nationality: United Kingdom
Profession: Multi-instrumentalist
Notable works: Kid a Mnesia
Spouse: Dajana Roncione

About Thom Yorke

He also plays guitar, bass, keyboards and other instruments, and is praised for his wide vocal range. Rolling Stone called him one of the greatest and most influential singers of his generation.

Quotes by Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke has a beautiful brain

Beautiful

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You are my centre when I spin away.

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I'll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.

Belief

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Are you feeling lucky? Cause I'm on a roll.

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And the moral of the story is I'm Thom Yorke.

Character

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I am all the days that you choose to ignore.

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i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT.

Robot

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You can't make an egg without frying an egg

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

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

Complexes

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

Career

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I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!

Baking

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The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks

Fish

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Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers

Children

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

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Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.

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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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I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the…

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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…

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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*

Christmas

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My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later…

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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…

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Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike…

Beautiful

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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.

Accident

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I wrote a lot of stuff quickly: pages and pages of notes that seemed pretty incoherent at first. Most of it was…

Giving

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I'm the next act Waiting in the wings I'm an animal Trapped in your hot car I am all of the days…

Animal

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If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a…

Animal

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If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's…

Best way

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There's nothing more boring than a rock'n'roll star. Someone who has been on the road for 10 years, expecting attention wherever he…

Attention

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My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but…

Bald eagle

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Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop.…

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The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have…

Driving

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The difference between me and Bono is that he's quite happy to go and flatter people to get what he wants and…

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I don't eat food, I Thom Yorke it. What's the difference? When normal people "eat" food, they first chew it with their…

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I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and…

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We're at a time when we are being presented with undeniable changes in the global climate and fundamental issues that affect every…

Bullshit

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What happens a lot with songwriting is that a melody or rhythm or something stays with you like catching a cold. And…

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Generally, it's not good to be engaged directly with the political system unless you are qualified. It's a very depressing business, the…

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Are you such a dreamer To put the world to rights? I'll stay home forever Where two and two always makes a…

April

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you have not been / paying attention

Attention

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