Top 250 Thom Yorke Quotes (2024 Update)
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101. “The hardest part about being in radiohead is being inside a giant head that is a radio. Ha ha, little english humour there, or is it a hammer?”

— Thom Yorke

102. “And I know I’m paranoid and neurotic, I’ve made a career out of it.”

— Thom Yorke

103. “It’s a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.”

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104. “While you make pretty speeches I’m being cut to shreds You feed me to the lions A delicate balance.”

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105. “The hardest part about being in Radiohead is listening to my own music.”

— Thom Yorke

106. “I think what makes people ill a lot of the time is the belief that your thoughts are concrete and that you’re responsible for your thoughts. Whereas actually – the way I see it – your thoughts are what the wind blows through your mind.”

— Thom Yorke

107. “Americans are ugly unwashed clods that live off of government cheese. If I could, I’d take every living American, grind them up into a fine paste and use that paste to feed the dolphins, because they are neglected by the evil Americans.”

— Thom Yorke

108. “My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my life but once I was partially eaten by a bald eagle who thought I was a salamander. Hence, my skills. Hence.”

— Thom Yorke

109. “I’m still not certain on the nature of the spork, whether it is a fork and a spoon, or a fork and a knife mixed together, or maybe a fork and a fork on top. Life is full of mysteries yeah man.”

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110. “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.”

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111. “If I weren’t in Radiohead I’d be working at a grocery store, I’d be that creepy guy who lives in an efficiency apartment and collects salted, cured meats.”

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112. “The only thing worse than Radiohead fans is everything else except me.”

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113. “Well actually I’m not a man but a carrot. The band was eating salads one day and a carrot fell off of the salad bar onto a microphone and the band realized that they had just discovered something brilliant. Me.”

— Thom Yorke

114. “Are you feeling lucky? Cause I’m on a roll.”

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115. “If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That’s the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We’re in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.”

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116. “If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork.”

— Thom Yorke

117. “I don’t write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke.”

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118. “When I was four I read the story of horton hears a who and I cried. I wanted to eat that elephant.”

— Thom Yorke

119. “Build gaps in your life. Pauses. Proper pauses.”

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120. “I’m the Legendary Radio Head.”

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121. “Do you think Radiohead is my whole goddamn life? I also have a roadside cart where I sell apples and mincemeat pies.”

— Thom Yorke

122. “It is difficult to make political art work.”

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123. “The head of state Has called for me by name But I don’t have time for him It’s gonna be a glorious day I feel my luck could change.”

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124. “Technology is killing us. We think it’s helping us but it’s killing us. Don’t ask me why because I don’t have the time or the attention span to complete that thought. Now let’s all hold hands and draw spider monkeys.”

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125. “My nickname in college was talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll doll because I’m a talentless midget who has a lazy eye is missing teeth resembles a shaved troll dol.”

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126. “I’m such a tease and you’re such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that’ll kill you.”

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127. “I was abducted by aliens as a boy. Aliens is the name of a pedophile who lived in my alley.”

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128. “I agree with whoever said Spice Girls are soft port. They’re the antichrist.”

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129. “Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.”

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130. “Drying up in conversation, You will be the one who cannot talk, All your insides fall to pieces, You just sit there wishing you could still make love.”

— Thom Yorke

131. “I am the greatest thing to happen to black music.”

— Thom Yorke

132. “I don’t even have children, it’s just been an excuse to play jenga and hit softballs in my backyard with a box of laundry detergant wearing baby clothes.”

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133. “I could blow bubbles. Bubbles would solve any dilemma we face. If bubbles were president there would be no war.”

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134. “The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs.”

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135. “I sometimes have birthday parties for the kids in my neighborhood and then pretend to suggest that I am going to molest them to the parents. It’s a hilarious prank even though I am not a paedophile.”

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136. “I can be very drunk in a club in Oxford on a Monday night, and some guy comes up to you and buys you a drink and says that the last record you made changed his life. That means something.”

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137. “They love me like I was a brother They protect me, listen to me They dug me my very own garden Gave me sunshine, made me happy Nice dream, nice dream Nice dream.”

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138. “My father slapped my thighs with a variety of meats until I began to cry and sulked in the corner. I later became a musician.”

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139. “Rock music is, is a necessary evil, like beating my children with penny loafers.”

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140. “Hunting Bears is a complex song. A bear, as you know is another term for a chubby chaser. The guitar line is actually the sound of a fat man’s thighs rubbing together as he approaches another lardy male for a night of sexual deviance.”

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141. “And I’m sorry for us The dinosaurs roam the earth The sky turns green.”

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142. “Have I told you I have cancer? It’s a very special kind of cancer. Cancer of the soul.”

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143. “When I was born, my mother didn’t know what to name me. Eventually she named me after Thom Yorke.”

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144. “If Bono can release an album out of nowhere then so can I!”

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145. “It’s impossible being me, I radiate a glow that makes others turn and grimace in horror as if staring into the sun.”

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146. “I don’t like old friends talking to me like I’m a pop star, cos it makes me feel like I’m becoming two-dimensional.”

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147. “I don’t really think of most non-English as people, more or less indigenous squirrels that I fancy to kick around with my snakeskin French Persian Boots.”

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148. “I don’t think I have a superiority complex. I have a “you’re not Thom Yorke” complex.”

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149. “So how come it looks so beautiful? How come the moon falls from the sky?”

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150. “And if the world does turn, and if London burns, I’ll be standing on the beach with my guitar. I want to be in a band, when I get to Heaven. Anyone can play guitar, and they won’t be a nothing anymore...”

— Thom Yorke