Frasi di Thom Yorke

„Penso che la cosa più importante della musica sia il senso di fuga.“

—  Thom Yorke

„Nella storia dei Radiohead, ogni disco rappresenta un'impresa. Per costruire e andare avanti, abbiamo ogni volta demolito tutto quello che avevamo fatto fino a quel momento. Il processo creativo è sempre stato penoso, tormentato, laborioso.“

—  Thom Yorke

„Le case discografiche ormai da anni pensano solo a breve scadenza, questo ha ucciso l'industria, insieme a una totale mancanza di tolleranza e di rispetto per il lavoro e la crescita dell'artista.“

—  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

„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 the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.“

—  Thom Yorke

„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 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

Origine: The Eraser

„Immerse your soul in love“

—  Thom Yorke

Street Spirit (Fade Out)
Lyrics, The Bends (1995)
Variante: Immerse your soul in love

„I keep the wolf from the door
But he calls me up
Calls me on the phone
Tells me all the ways that he's gonna mess me up
Steal all my children
If I don't pay the ransom
And I'll never see 'em again
If I squeal to the cops“

—  Thom Yorke

"A Wolf at the Door"
Lyrics, Hail to the Thief (2003)

„Jumped in the river, what did I see?
Black-eyed angels swam with me
A moonful 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

"Pyramid Song"
Lyrics, Amnesiac (2001)

„The thing that worries me about the computer age is the fact that people know so much about you. It's an incredible invasion of privacy. And no matter where you are in the world people can monitor you if you're using your credit card. I heard this weird rumor on the Internet about how the military is funding this great big research project and basically, they believe that in the future, the balance of power won't be determined by who has the most nuclear weapons, but by who has all the information. I'm not afraid of being taken over by computers though, because the thing is, computers cannot resist. You can always smash 'em up, and they're totally defenseless. All we need are more people with hammers.“

—  Thom Yorke

source http://radiohead1.tripod.com/band/thomquotes.htm

„Different types of love
are possible“

—  Thom Yorke

Desert Island Disk
Lyrics, A Moon Shaped Pool (2016)

„(on his inability to read music) "If someone lays the notes on a page in front of me, it's meaningless…because to me you can't express the rhythms properly like that. It's a very ineffective way of doing it, so I've never really bothered picking it up."“

—  Thom Yorke

source http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Stage/9346/RAAmain.html

„I wouldn't be involved with it [pop music] if I wasn't aware that it was going to be a product. I always wanted whatever I did to end up in the high street, no matter what it was, because to me, there isn't anywhere else to go. It's pointless.“

—  Thom Yorke

source http://www.followmearound.com/presscuttings.php?year=2000&cutting=91

„Far up above, aliens hover
Making home movies for the folks back home
Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits
Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets“

—  Thom Yorke

"Subterranean Homesick Alien"
Lyrics, OK Computer (1997)

„Her green plastic watering can
For a fake Chinese rubber plant
In the fake plastic earth.“

—  Thom Yorke

Fake Plastic Trees
Lyrics, The Bends (1995)