Thom Yorke

Musician

Quotes about Thom Yorke

  1. 16 hours ago

    HitFix

    "Harry Patch," in rememberance of the last remaining British WWI soldier who died recently. However, Matt Friedberger from ADD indie band Fiery Furnaces thought Thom Yorke was misdirecting the honor toward experimental musician Harry Partch -- like he just didn't spell it right or something -- and sayeth, "Fuck you! You brand yourself by brazenly and arbitrarily associating yourself with things that you know people consider cool."

  2. November 04, 2009

    Wikipedia

    The song was also covered by fellow British rock group Radiohead as a joke in the late 1990s; Thom Yorke sings many incorrect lyrics and cuts out mid-chorus when a background voice says, "Is this abysmal or what? It's always good to make fun of Oasis."

  3. November 01, 2009

    Wikipedia

    However, in this cameo only the versions of Yorke and Jonny Greenwood resemble themselves; O'Brien said "If you freeze-frame it on the video, the guy with the five strands of hair slicked back, that's Colin. It looks nothing like him."

  4. October 27, 2009

    Wikipedia

    An article in Q" claimed that, according to Yorke, "Meeting People Is Easy is "a 94-minute message to any younger bands who might envy Radiohead's high-flying lifestyle. And that message is: 'Don't even think about it.'"

  5. October 03, 2009

    NME.com

    "Play some Skynyrd!" Yorke responded by flashing both middle fingers, saying, "You think I should be playing Stone Temple Pilots too?"

Quotes by Thom Yorke

  1. November 10, 2009

    NME.com

    "Under the confused assumption that we can carry on consuming power as we do now into the future, and too afraid to think out of their own isolated political fuzzy cloud, the British government is committing to build a new round of nuclear power stations for which we don't have the money," Yorke wrote.

  2. November 06, 2009

    Wikipedia

    Other members of Radiohead have cited the band as an influence, and Yorke commented, "If we were all into the Pixies and nothing else, then it would be pretty obvious what the band would sound like." While touring with U2 in 1992, the Pixies were sent a note from the band saying "Keep digging for fire. We love you."

  3. November 05, 2009

    Wikipedia

    "Fake Plastic Trees." However, Yorke has said, "It annoys me how pretty my voice is... how polite it can sound when perhaps what I'm singing is deeply acidic." He has often adopted other styles of singing, such as an aggressive shouting style in the middle section of "Paranoid Android" and a semi-spoken style for 2003's "Myxomatosis" and "A Wolf at the Door."

  4. November 04, 2009

    Wikipedia

    "Videotape" as "absolute agony", stating that the song "went through every possible parameter". One day, Yorke left the studio, returning to find that Godrich and Jonny Greenwood had stripped the song down to the version found on the album, a minimal piano ballad. Yorke has said that the album's lyrics are based on "that anonymous fear thing, sitting in traffic, thinking, 'I'm sure I'm supposed to be doing something else' ... it's similar to OK Computer in a way. It's much more terrifying."

  5. November 04, 2009

    Wikipedia

    In another interview, Yorke said the album was "about the fucking panic of realising you're going to die! And that any time soon I coul possibly hav a heart attack when I next go for a run."