If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I! Thom Yorke More Quotes by Thom Yorke More Quotes From 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 music media thinking 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 music writing art I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. Thom Yorke trash music darkness I think escape is sort of like coming to a show with ten thousand other people and responding to that moment. Sharing that moment - that's escape. Thom Yorke moments people thinking i'M nOT thOM yorkE but a. ROBOT. Thom Yorke robots I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless. Thom Yorke grew grew-up believe What the hell am I doing here? Thom Yorke radiohead weirdo hell And I know I'm paranoid and neurotic, I've made a career out of it. Thom Yorke paranoid careers made 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 maniacs people I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the? Thom Yorke hamburgers dream faces 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 artist mother wings It's God's will that millions of people are gonna die this year because of some outmoded economic policies? No, it's not! Thom Yorke economic people years 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 artist views people 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 a house by the sea, and I can sit and listen to the sound of the sea and eventually... but I can't really do it. Thom Yorke nuts sea house 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 entering time thinking My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art. Thom Yorke political art thinking I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. Thom Yorke weirdo creeps We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us. Thom Yorke shallow records usual I would rather die then let my kids eat cup a soup. Thom Yorke cups soup kids 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. Thom Yorke stars talking two
