Top 250 Thom Yorke Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I’m a creep, I’m a weirdo.”

— Thom Yorke

2. “What the hell am I doing here?”

— Thom Yorke

3. “Immerse your soul in love.”

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4. “I’m a creep. I’m a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don’t belong here.”

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5. “I’ll take a quiet life And a handshake of carbon monoxide And no alarms and no surprises.”

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6. “Don’t get any big ideas, They’re not gonna happen.”

— Thom Yorke

7. “I am all the days that you choose to ignore.”

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8. “I’m listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.”

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9. “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.”

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10. “It’s not so much that I’m an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god.”

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11. “The only thing more difficult than being a God is being Thom Yorke. Thom Yorke has all these responsibilities, to save the planet. To save the world. To redeem Thom Yorke.”

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12. “I’ll drown my beliefs. To have you be in peace.”

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13. “I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that’s what the song is about.”

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14. “It’s easy to be miserable. Being happy is tougher – and cooler.”

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15. “I became a vegan because I’m better than you.”

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16. “I want to be alone and I want people to notice me – both at the same time.”

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17. “Like a fat raccoon rummaging through the garbage, that how I eat. Like a f-king fat raccoon.”

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18. “I hate cars. They are so loud, and ugly, and full of toxic exhaust, like radiohead fans.”

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19. “I’m not saying my fans are stupid, but I once left a cabbage onstage next to a harmonica and nobody noticed for three hours.”

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20. “Sometimes I stand in store windows and pretend to be a mannequin. People are like ‘hey, that mannequin looks alot like thom yorke’ Then I start to sing The Gloaming and lurch toward them and they run off horrified.”

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21. “You cannot kickstart a dead horse.”

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22. “Most Radiohead songs are actually REM songs, I just have a mentally ill child read the lyrics aloud and then I change the melodies a bit.”

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23. “My parents mistook me for a sack of potatoes so I sat in the corner of the kitchen for the first 13 years of my life. My birth name is Thom Potatoes.”

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24. “Space Jam is my favorite movie. Don’t ask me why, it just is.”

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25. “If I could do just one thing to change the world, I’d make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.”

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26. “My uncle used to sit me on his lap and play “ventriloquist”, only I wasn’t wearing pants.”

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27. “In an interstellar burst I am back to save the universe In a fast German car I’m amazed that I survived An airbag saved my life.”

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28. “As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster.”

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29. “When I go forwards, you go backwards And somewhere we will meet.”

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30. “My mother tried to abort me herself with a coathanger, hence my wobbly eye.”

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31. “Alot of my lyrics are about beating my children. ‘Hit the bottom and escape’ is a cry for help. oh god someone stop me.”

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32. “The pointless snide remarks of hammerheaded sharks.”

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33. “My nickname in high school was jack-o-lantern because I’m missing 9 teeth.”

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34. “OK Computer? More like No Thank You Computers. They killed my father, and I hate them.”

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35. “There’s the beautiful people and then there’s the rest of us.”

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36. “Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy.”

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37. “When people ask me for an autograph I usually ask for a pen and then stab them with it.”

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38. “Women’s underwear section it’s like Narnia’s wardrobe for my erotic delights.”

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39. “I stopped showering ever since I realized water causes people to drown. I cannot risk being so close to something that can murder me. Do you let killers into your house? Oh, but you let a murderer come out of your own faucet. Hypocrite.”

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40. “I’ve been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he’s brilliant.”

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41. “Ironically my brother died in a car accident shortly after Airbag was recorded. He’s not an identical twin so I didn’t care.”

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42. “I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we’re asses.”

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43. “The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear.”

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44. “I’m Chris Martin with down syndrome.”

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45. “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.”

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46. “Time is running out for us But you just move the hands upon the clock You throw coins in the wishing well For us You just move your hands upon the wall.”

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47. “And true love waits In haunted attics And true love lives On lollipops and crisps.”

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48. “I want to live, breathe, I want to be part of the human race.”

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49. “You’ll go to hell for what your dirty mind is thinking.”

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50. “I see fat kids on the street all the time and I give them free radiohead t-shirts with bullseyes on them. Later when I see them wearing the t-shirts I shoot at them with bb guns while riding a very large dog and singing kicking squealing gucci little piggy over and over.”

— Thom Yorke