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Music Quotes by Thom Yorke
- In November I'll be releasing my new solo record, entitled 'Box Of Bees'. There's no music, it's just a box full of live bees. The…
- I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.
- The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.
- Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.
- Making music for Radiohead is like going to the bathroom, I'm just going to the bathroom constantly, and millions are watching me go to the…
- Most of my dancing is actually convulsions from having to listen to my own music
- Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers
- Kid A is about an abortion. *laughs* It's about how our music is an abortion
- Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they…
- I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately…
- 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…
- I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.
- I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
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- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Musicians don't retire; they stop when there's no more music in them. — Louis Armstrong
- All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
- What we play is life. — Louis Armstrong
- If you have to ask what jazz is, you'll never know. — Louis Armstrong
- We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself. — Louis Armstrong