Thom Yorke
Thom Yorke
Thomas Edward "Thom" Yorkeis an English musician best known as the singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock band Radiohead. A multi-instrumentalist, Yorke mainly plays guitar and piano, but also plays instruments including keyboards, bass, and drums, and works extensively with synthesisers, sequencers and programming. He is known for his falsetto vocals; in 2008, Rolling Stone ranked him the 66th greatest singer of all time...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth7 October 1968
CityWellingborough, England
It is difficult to make political art work.
Every move you make has already been done, and taken the piss out of.
If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.
People sometimes say we take things too seriously, but it's the only way you'll get anywhere.
I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.
I can't wait to die so I can be a skeleton and play my chest like a xylophone.
Bulletproof is about the fact that I was shot in the face and survived. Nah I'm joking that'd be grisly and awful.
I may have found the cure for cancer, and I think it might be Thom Yorke Serum.
I'm baking stories, and singing cookies, oh the tonderous wimes!
I'm horrified of leprechauns. I'm horrified that I might be leprechauns.
Why did the chicken cross the road? Because he's a goddamn chicken he doesn't know what the **** he's doing
Sonic the hedgehog is a beautiful statement on capitalism. You spend your whole life collecting yellow rings and then hit one spike and lose them all. And there is a fat man who wants to kill you.
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
Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think.