Posts tagged Thom Yorke

Quote 32
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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

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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.
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Photo 155
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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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Chat 19
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Posted 3 months ago

duty of expression

  1. Q: So would you say that there's a place for both directly political and non-political artists? What importance do you think each have?
  2. Yorke: Yeah, I don't think we are [political] at all, I think I'm hyper aware of the soapbox thing. It is difficult to make political art work. If all it does is exist in the realms of political discussion, it's using that language, and generally, it's an ugly language. It is very dead, definitely not a thing of beauty. The only reason, I think, that we go anywhere near it is because, like any reason that we buy music, these things get absorbed. These are the things surrounding your life. If you sit down and try to do it purposefully, and try to change this with this, and do this with that, it never works. I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape. But there are different ways to escape. 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. Wherever the music came from originally is secondary to what's happening at that moment, how the music sends you somewhere else. That's the important thing.
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Quote 35
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Posted 4 months ago
Around him, sampled mouth music groans and shivers, a murderous miasma of desire and despair, while Yorke makes himself harsh, drugged and dangerous, like Howard Devoto on Magazine’s Permafrost. Not for the first time you wonder where he gets all this FROM, this constant, vivid empathy with the tortured and powerless. Strip away the talent, ambition, education, young family and brilliant band and maybe this is how he feels too. Tragic if it’s true, uncannily effective as art if it isn’t.
Mojo, August 2006
Quote 49
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Posted 4 months ago
How do you play any of Kid A live? How do you even write an album like Kid A? And how on earth does a distorted, confused and recycled Thom Yorke sing along with a real Thom Yorke, playing a keyboard that gets recycled and cut up too, until the band can leave the stage while their music goes on, slowly eating itself?
Consequence of Sound: The 30 Best Live Versions of Songs, July 8, 2011
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Posted 7 months ago

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Quote 246
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Posted 7 months ago

Thom Yorke is weird, sort of. But you’ve met weirder. He’s mostly just an intense, five-foot-five-inch 34-year-old who wears hooded sweatshirts with sleeves too long for his limbs, and this makes him look like a nervous kindergartener. He doesn’t appear to have combed his hair since The Bends came out in 1995, and his beard looks undecided, if that’s possible.


But here’s the bottom line: He’s nice. Not exactly gregarious, but polite. He is neither mechanical nor messianic. And this is what everyone seems to miss about him - and Radiohead as a whole: They may make transcendent, fragile, pre-apocalyptic math rock for a generation of forward-thinking fans, but they’re still just a bunch of guys.

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