Thom Yorke

(1968) Multi-instrumentalist United Kingdom

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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 · Page 8

Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me…

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

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We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply…

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Protest

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In pitch dark I go walking in your landscape Broken branches Trip me as I speak Just 'cause you feel it Doesn't…

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Accidents

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I'm still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and…

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Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change…

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I bought a blimp just so I could get a bunch of wankers excited over nothing, what did you do with your…

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Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing

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I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the…

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Cancer

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We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more,…

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If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

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Age

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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.

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I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

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Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well…

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Clock

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My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13…

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Birth

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

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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…

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I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that…

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Concerts

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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…

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Dad

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Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.

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I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never…

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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…

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This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper…

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I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box…

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Baby

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

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I'm banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

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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…

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About yourself

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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…

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Every morning

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I could not extrapolate some emotion from any song after 1997 so I bought a drum machine and popped pills. The pink…

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Computers

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Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'

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Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

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I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for…

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The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious…

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I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and…

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The whole point of creating music for me is to give voice to things that aren't normally given voice to.

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Creating

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