110+ Thom Yorke Quotes On Experimental, Intricate And Haunting

Thom Yorke is an English musician, singer, songwriter, and composer. He is best known as the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. He has released three solo studio albums and collaborated with artists such as Björk, Flying Lotus, and Burial. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Thom Yorke on love, experimental, intricate.

Top 10 Thom Yorke Quotes

1. I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.
2. And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps
3. Amnesiac was written to make fun of senior citizens with alzheimers. I hate them and I wish they'd die.
4. The video of 'Paranoid Android' has been censored by MTV. They took all nipples out of the cartoon, but they had no problem with the scene in which a man cuts off his own arms and legs.
5. The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear
6. If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.
7. Hungry Hungry Hippos is so depressing. You continuously chomp away at those balls and you are alone and it's your birthday.'
8. I became a vegan because I'm better than you
9. I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.
10. Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.

Thom Yorke Short Quotes

• If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
• I am all the days that you choose to ignore.
• The only real difference between me and chocolate pudding is that I am not a black man.
• Trying to find my flaws is like trying to find a black person at one of our concerts
• I'm terrified of lasagna. I think it was to eat ME!
• Radiohead is overrated. Thom Yorke's solo output, however, is brilliant.
• The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me
• You'll go to Hell For what your Dirty mind is thinking.
• If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork
• If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.

Thom Yorke Quotes About Love

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with. — Thom Yorke

If I could be any famous person, I'd be John Wilkes Booth, because I'd love to shoot Abraham Lincoln in the face — Thom Yorke

Your fantasies are unlikely. But beautiful. — Thom Yorke

Immerse your soul in love. — Thom Yorke

They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream — Thom Yorke

I'm a full grown man and I'm not tall enough to ride a rollercoaster. So I will sit on the teacups, eat my tea and biscuits and reminisce with the cheshire cat who lives in my head. Oh hello Mr. Cheshire, lovely weather this morning. Mr. Cheshire? Oh my god. — Thom Yorke

She looks like the real thing She tastes like the real thing My fake plastic love But I can't help the feeling I could blow through the ceiling If I just turn and run. — Thom Yorke

I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially. — Thom Yorke

Drying up in conversation You will be the one who cannot talk All your insides fall to pieces You just sit there wishing you could still make love. — Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke Quotes About Music

Yeah, after making Pablo Honey, we started experimenting with cloning myself in order to double the band's creative energy. However, the experiment was a failure, and the defective Thom Yorke clone escaped. And formed a band called Muse. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

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 bathroom. — Thom Yorke

I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. — 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 deluxe edition comes with more bees. — Thom Yorke

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

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

The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

I am the greatest thing to happen to black music. — Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke Quotes About Political

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. — Thom Yorke

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political. — Thom Yorke

Obviously, the duty of artists is there, but it's more an indictment of the political system that someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible for inspiring change. — Thom Yorke

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 right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. — Thom Yorke

It is difficult to make political art work. — Thom Yorke

It annoys me how pretty my voice is...that sounds incredibly immodest, but it annoys me how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic. — Thom Yorke

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers. — Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke Quotes About People

There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. — Thom Yorke

I'm terrible at jigsaw puzzles. Other people solve the puzzle but I just keep trying to make the pieces that don't fit fit. I guess that's what makes me special, I try to assemble jigsaw puzzles incorrectly. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

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 — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

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

Thom Yorke Quotes About Truth

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

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke Quotes About Artists

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. — Thom Yorke

Coming from Britain, I was terrified of meeting all these other artists, because artists over there tend to fight with each other a lot, the premise being that there's not enough room for everybody. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over — Thom Yorke

I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen. — Thom Yorke

I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

My nickname in college was talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll doll because I'm a talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll dol — Thom Yorke

The band name came about when the original vocalist died when a huge radio fell on his head. He trotted about for a while dancing with the radio on his head, before he died of asphyxiation and blood loss. *Laughs* it was hilarious — Thom Yorke

My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence. — Thom Yorke

To protest, I stood in the place of a waste receptacle and opened my mouth. That's how I lost my virginity *laughs* — Thom Yorke

I use various soaps and hand sanitizers in the shower. I shower maybe fifteen times a day, but Thom Yorke is never really clean *laughs*. — Thom Yorke

I'm not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours — Thom Yorke

If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise. — Thom Yorke

I'm the next act Waiting in the wings I'm an animal Trapped in your hot car I am all of the days That you choose to ignore You are all I need You are all I need I'm in the middle of your picture Lying in the reeds. — Thom Yorke

My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but that's just the way it is. — Thom Yorke

I'm celibate. It's not that I'm a religious or moral person or anything, it's just, if you aren't ****ing Thom Yorke, what's the point? Actually, just kidding, Thom Yorke and I **** all the time. Hehehe. Had you. — Thom Yorke

I actually saw the loch ness monster when I was 9. She was big as a house. Want to know who the loch ness monster is? It's your obese mother. Burn mother****er — Thom Yorke

Remember that Cosby show where he harrassed the children? Well I put on a little suit and because I am so small they invited me on but nobody was laughing at my jokes. I guess I'm just, too, particularly smart for them. — Thom Yorke

I'm such a tease And you're such a flirt... Routines and schedules Drug and kill you Kill you. — Thom Yorke

Yes I usually make my kids eat their veggie chops and watch my concerts in dead silence. If they ask to watch spongebob squarepants I usually do something volatile like make them eat a yellow sponge with googly eyes on it. I hit them quite a bit, but then again I blame the condom manufacturing government for forcing me to birth them. — Thom Yorke

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full of stars and astral cars And all the figures I used to see All my lovers were there with me All my past and futures And we all went to heaven in a little row boat There was nothing to fear and nothing to doubt. — Thom Yorke

Mephostopheles is the name of a male gigolo I knew. When he's reaching up to grab me, I suppose it's an erotic bit of poetry. — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant. — Thom Yorke

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about. — Thom Yorke

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 — Thom Yorke

My nickname in grade school was salamander because I have a lazy eye — Thom Yorke

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 goes, drinking himself stupid, who is obnoxious, incoherent, uncreative, and has a massive ego. There's nothing more pointless. — Thom Yorke

Imagine? Yeah I can imagine John Lennon being dead. — Thom Yorke

I ultimately decided that I couldn't beat it more than three times a day, (I) was just too drained and chapped. That's what Radiohead is about. You're just drained and chapped, down there. — Thom Yorke

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. — Thom Yorke

If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs* — Thom Yorke

What the hell am I doing here? — Thom Yorke

Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of them. I created them in 1991 using my massive brainpower. Even pitchforkmedia is a product of my brilliant imagination. — Thom Yorke

In an interstellar burst, I am back to save the universe. In a deep deep sleep of the innocent, I am born again. In a fast German car, I'm amazed that I survived, An airbag saved my life... — Thom Yorke

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it. — Thom Yorke

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

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans. — Thom Yorke

Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking, squealing Gucci little piggy. — Thom Yorke

Treefingers is important, it's the point in which our protagonist crosses the icy tundra that is how to disappear completely to reach the island of Optimistic. But seriously, kill yourself. — Thom Yorke

I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It's a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile. — Thom Yorke

I don't even have children, it's just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes. — Thom Yorke

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour. — Thom Yorke

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises... — Thom Yorke

I wanted to live with the ****ing manta rays, but they banned me from Sea World. — Thom Yorke

I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They're the antichrist. — Thom Yorke

My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I'm missing 9 teeth — Thom Yorke

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

I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war. — Thom Yorke

Performing is great, but you are exposed to all this extra stuff that you don't have to deal with when you stop. I'm getting used to it now, but it's kind of just the fallout. It's really weird. It's not a natural situation to be in. It sounds like moaning, because I know that's what I'm supposed to do, and I'm not moaning. — Thom Yorke

Isn't it strange how someone can be both human and divine at the same time? I am referring, of course, to myself. — Thom Yorke

My big problem with corporate structure is this bizarre sense of loyalty you're supposed to feel -- towards what is basically a virus. It grows or dies, like any virus. And you use it for your own selfish ends." - source — Thom Yorke

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. — Thom Yorke

The head of state Has called for me by name But I don't have time for him It's gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change — Thom Yorke

Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man's thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance. — Thom Yorke

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome — Thom Yorke

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*. — Thom Yorke

The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke. — Thom Yorke

My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician — Thom Yorke

Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall — Thom Yorke

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

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

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. — Thom Yorke

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

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. — Thom Yorke

I bought a blimp just so I could get a bunch of wankers excited over nothing, what did you do with your weekend? — Thom Yorke

Life Lessons by Thom Yorke

1. Thom Yorke's work emphasizes the importance of staying true to yourself and your artistic vision, even when it means going against the grain.
2. His music is a reminder that experimentation and risk-taking can lead to great rewards.
3. He has also demonstrated the power of collaboration, showing how different musical styles can be combined to create something unique and special.