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Posted 2 weeks ago
I tell you what’s really ridiculous - going to a bookshop and there’s all these books about yourself. In a way it feels like you’re already dead. So you’ve got a kind of license to start again.
Thom Yorke, Hysterical & Useless (submitted by supervoksen)
Video 410
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Posted 1 month ago

the-king-of-ponytails:

thom yorke: music tv channels are basically there to sell the ads in between. that’s how they make their money. im sure you’ll cut this at some point to support that horrendous ad that supports this lifestyle— that shot of  two people dancing to their mobile phones being inspired, playing some goofy tune because somehow that’s become acceptable.

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Quote 87
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Posted 1 month ago
Thom has the most acute bullshit detector in the band.
Ed O’Brien (via the-king-of-ponytails)
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Quote 35
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Posted 2 months ago
I wish I was special, You’re so fuckin’ special, But I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo, What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.
Radiohead (via walkthepathsofconstellations)
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Quote 287
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Posted 2 months ago
I think a lot of the time the reason that people pirate, is they want access to good music. And they don’t get it because the radio is so shit.
Thom Yorke (via twilekbabe)

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Chat 67
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Posted 2 months ago

What do you actually do for entertainment in the studio?

  1. Ed: We do a lot of reading, in the summer, we were at a studio just outside Oxford, which is our hometown, and it was great, they had this swimming pool there, and you know, the end of the session at midnight we'd all go set out all these inflatables and stuff like that and have a laugh, so it was a very, it was a very relaxing kind of place,
  2. Interviewer: Do you find that really bizarre, living that kind of life
  3. Ed: Yeah, I mean, it's totally weird that you, that maybe in a day you've tracked this song that you're really really proud of, and there you are on this warm summer's evening, staying at this manor house, lying on this inflatable coconut tree...
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Quote 45
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Posted 2 months ago

And if you want to understand how deeply mind-altering it must have been for the members of Radiohead — five guys from Oxford, England, many of whom had classical training or art school on their résumés — to hit the alternative-rock Lotto when and how they did, look up their 1993 performance at the MTV Beach House on YouTube.

It appears to be a slightly overcast day, as if the band had come across the pond with its own cloud cover. They’re playing on a wooden platform over a pool in which inflatable toys drift dejectedly. Greenwood appears to be wearing a kid’s pajama top. Thom Yorke is translucently pale, with a haircut that looks bully-administered; discomfort with the role of beach-party entertainer practically wafts off him in cartoon-skunk stink-waves, confusing the attractive, sweatshirted white teenagers in the audience and harshing their mellow; the fact that Yorke whispers the lyrics of the song as if they’re a curse he’s putting on their summer doesn’t help.

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Quote 60
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Posted 3 months ago
I didn’t expect to meet somebody from pop music who was really quite a normal person,” Penderecki laughs. “He dresses very normal, he has dignity and very good manners.
Krzysztof Penderecki on Jonny Greenwood, 2012. (via remyxomatosis)
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Posted 3 months ago
thom: jake scott [director of Fake Plastic Trees] rang me up one night and… i’d been drinking… and he gave me two ideas: one was a doll— which i didn’t understand— and then he mentioned something about a supermarket and I went “OOHH YEAH YEAH YEAH!” and then we spent the next hour faxing things. 

thom: jake scott [director of Fake Plastic Trees] rang me up one night and… i’d been drinking… and he gave me two ideas: one was a doll— which i didn’t understand— and then he mentioned something about a supermarket and I went “OOHH YEAH YEAH YEAH!” and then we spent the next hour faxing things. 

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Chat 21
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Posted 3 months ago
  1. Q: Pablo Picasso once said: "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth." How do you react to this quote as describing the role of artists to inspire change and show us what the world should be like?
  2. Yorke: Fox News is a lie. [laughs] Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job. So I guess I'd be on the lying side. 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.
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