Thom Yorke > Quotes

“I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time”
― Thom Yorke

“There's the beautiful people and then there's the rest of us.”
― Thom Yorke

“I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.”
― Thom Yorke

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

“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 you're already dead.”
― Thom Yorke

“So how come it looks so beautiful?
How come the moon falls from the sky?”
― Thom Yorke, The Eraser

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

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

“When you were here before
Couldn't look you in the eye
You're just like an angel
Your skin makes me cry”
― Thom Yorke

“And true love waits
In haunted attics
And true love lives
On lollipops and crisps”
― Thom Yorke

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

I'll lay down the tracks
Sandbag and hide
January has April's showers
And two and two always makes a five

It's the devil's way now
There is no way out
You can SCREAM and you can shout
It is too late now

Because...
You have not been
Payin' attention!
Payin' attention!
Payin' attention!
Payin' attention!
You have not been paying attention!
”
― Thom Yorke

“Immerse your soul in love.”
― Thom Yorke

“I believe that any great work of art is, in itself, a form of resistance against a sense of powerlessness.”
― Thom Yorke

“I once got hit with a taser at a concert and everyone thought I was dancing. Now I have to do that dance, at every show for the rest of my life, or admit that a taser can damage the Thom Yorke.
—Thom Yorke, whispering to himself”
― Thom Yorke

“you have not been / paying attention”
― Thom Yorke

“And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won't be a nothing anymore...”
― Thom Yorke

“I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo”
― Thom Yorke

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

“When I watch Björk sing, It's right here, that spot at the top of the forehead. Neil Young is the same. He sings to this spot in his head. And what he's singing, he's already heard. He's hearing it come out. And the same with Björk. When she's singing, she's singing what she's hearing so there's no force. It's a force in itself.
What I realised watching Michael Stipe, was that this is someone whose voice is in command of them rather than the other way around. It's very natural but it takes a long time for that to become natural. Like any singer, it takes a long time to find that, and it keeps changing. How I sing now feels different to a few years ago. It's just where you're at. Singing is nothing but being in the moment. That's it.
I remember during OK Computer, I still thought "I need to be slightly drunk" or "I need to do something beforehand so that I'm in the right space, man", but it's all bollocks, because basically you just gotta learn to be there with it when you do it.
You're not trying to prove anything. You're not trying to get anywhere. You're not trying to achieve anything. You're not trying to get this emotion across. You're not in this space trying to get this space across. You're not trying to get this mindset across or anything. You're just letting it happen.”
― Thom Yorke

“And if the world does turn, and if London burns,
I'll be standing on the beach with my guitar”
― Thom Yorke

“If there is a devil at work then he rests in institutions and not in individuals. Because the beauty of institutions is that any individual can abdicate responsibility. The assumption that we're all utterly powerless, that's the devil at work.”
― Thom Yorke

“Yesterday, I woke up sucking a lemon”
― Thom Yorke

“Get the eggs
Get the flan in the face”
― Thom Yorke

“I'm not here,
This isn't happening”
― Thom Yorke, How to Disappear Completely Sheet Music

“The reason you create music or art or write is in order to put things in a way you can possibly deal with them, and death is one of those areas... If you're accused of being morbid or bleak then you're onto a good thing, I'd say. Our culture is the most fucking desperate culture, desperately trying to avoid anything vaguely depressing.”
― Thom Yorke

“You do it to yourself”
― Thom Yorke