Thom Yorke Quotes
'I wouldn't be involved with it pop music if I wasn't aware that it was going to be a product. I always wanted whatever I did to end up in the high street, no matter what it was, because to me, there isn't anywhere else to go. It's pointless.' source
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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Time was God's first creation.
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Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
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It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
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I love gross kissing. I think it's the most fun thing to do.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I'm sponsored by Audi, so I have this rather lovely rather arrangement where they just insist that I'm always in the latest model.
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If we could create invention capitalism, that would be a helluva legacy, that would be a helluva thing to do... We could actually turbocharge the rate at which the world invents things.
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If you don't have a refinery operating, it's hard to use oil that's available.
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I would love to do more music, definitely. That is my true passion. Dance is first and then music.
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The Puritans nobly fled from a land of despotism to a land of freedim, where they could not only enjoy their own religion, but could prevent everybody else from enjoyin his.
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The audience has its own gestalt, and it becomes another character - a character that changes each night.
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Only he who is helpless can truly pray.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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'I wouldn't be involved with it pop music if I wasn't aware that it was going to be a product. I always wanted whatever I did to end up in the high street, no matter what it was, because to me, there isn't anywhere else to go. It's pointless.' source
