Best 259 quotes of Thom Yorke on MyQuotes

I feel like as musicians we need to fight the Spotify thing. I feel that in some ways what's happening in the mainstream is the last gasp of the old industry. Once that does finally die, which it will, something else will happen.

If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies. Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*

If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.

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

If I had one wish I'd wish for a million wishes because I am clever.

If I was an owl, I would peck your eyes out. Wow this lyric is ****ing brilliant.

If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.

If I were a bottle of wine, my name would be Thom Cork

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.

If I were to be any celebrity, I'd be Chris Martin. I've always wondered what it would be like to be jealous of Thom Yorke.

If Radiohead were a fruit we would be apples, because apples are festive

If the media spotlight affects my work or represses what I want to say in the future, then it is bad.

If there are political programs on TV, yet it takes an artist to actually energize political debate, that tells you something really quite frightening about the level of the political debate happening on mainstream channels - right-wing-biased mothers.

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.

If we replaced all of our guns with chicken sandwiches it would end all war immediately.

If you Americans aren't from the stone age then explain to me how your president is a ****ing pterodactyl

If you don't trust everybody on stage with you, then you're in trouble.

If you forget about the money issue for just a minute, if it's possible to do that - because these are people's livelihoods we're talking about - and you look at Internet in terms of the most amazing broadcasting network ever built, then it's completely different. In some ways, that's the best way of looking at it.

If you're bored of the songs, you're bored of the songs. There's not much you can do.

I got into the music business thinking it was really radical, that it wasn't really a business at all, that it was a lot of people being artistic and creative. Not true, and it made me very depressed.

I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.

I had a dream where my face was a hamburger. What the?

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

I hate to sound self absorbed, but I'm just going to cast out this pearl of wisdom, if I could give the whole world cancer and kill them and be the last man on earth it would be a sign that god loves me especially.

I have multiple personalities, but, being a fairly uncreative individual, they are all Thom Yorke.

I have no idea what I am talking about I'm trapped in this body and can't get out

I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.

I jumped in the river, what did I see? Black-eyed angels swam with me A moon full 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.

I know I'm 38 but I insist that santa claus exists and he raped my mother when I was 9.

I'll regularly just burst out into laughter at funerals, at the expense of the dead. What's the difference between a dead person and Thom Yorke? One is talented and the other is dead. **** you grandma

I'll take a quiet life, A handshake of carbon monoxide. No alarms and no surprises...

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.

I love listening to music with my mate. We don't do it often, but when we do we'll just sit there and lose our heads in it. Sooner or later he'll start saying something to the effect of "Hey, Thom, can you put in something else now?" but I'll just nod coldly and respond "not just yet". But after awhile, I'll finally budge. And that's when I crack a big smile and take out The Bends and put in Kid A. My friend just sighs and leaves the room, and I can't blame him. He's not ready for that leap yet.

I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.

I'm achingly aware of my own limitations as both part of the human race and as an individual. I'm just, casting this out that, maybe, I'm not so perfect as is the affront I oft put on. After all, the lyric is 'I wish I was special'. I truly just want to be loved and accepted, I think, like all humans.

I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo. What the hell am I doing here? I don't belong here.

I may be a tough fellow but I have a reflective side as well. Reflective as in I'll bash your head in with a ****ing mirror.

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 banned from Middlebrook elementary for telling dirty jokes to the janitor. The janitor! He cleans up dirt for a living.

I'm Chris Martin with down syndrome

I'm even taller in person, because photographs shrink you down and steal your soul native american.

I'm glad I escaped the clutches of those evil gnomes... I'm talking, of course, about Puerto Ricans.

I'm listening to Aphex Twin. That makes me cultured and interesting.

Immerse your soul in love.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world. They're just sitting there. I can hit them with a two by four.

I'm not afraid of computers taking over the world.

I'm not a martyr, just a musician who dies for your sins. Oh, that's what a martyr is? Very well then, I am a martyr, if you insist.

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

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