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Thom Yorke

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Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.


— Thom Yorke


#needs #someone #tell #truth

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


— Thom Yorke


#just #look #nicest #sometimes #thing

This was something that was obsessing me and creating a writer's block. To get involved and get stuck in, get the proper information about what's going on has really helped.


— Thom Yorke


#block #creating #get #going #helped

We didn't start out to make a protest record at all. That would have been too shallow. As usual, it was simply a case of absorbing what's going on around us.


— Thom Yorke


#been #case #going #make #out

We don't have to stand on a soap-box and preach because hopefully we're channelling it through the new record.


— Thom Yorke


#hopefully #new #preach #record #stand

We toyed with the idea of making it a double album, but I think that would only have confused everybody even more, so we decided to stick with the songs we picked.


— Thom Yorke


#confused #decided #double #even #everybody

Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.


— Thom Yorke


#any #bear #by the time #deal #draws

You think I have the responsibilty... I have the responsibility to give the fans a good time!


— Thom Yorke


#give #good #good time #i #responsibility

Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.


— Thom Yorke


#dead #difficult #funny #kennedys #more

I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape.


— Thom Yorke


#escape #i #i think #important #important thing






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He has also collaborated on several tracks with the electronic music group Modeselektor providing vocals on the 2007 track "The White Flash" from the album Happy Birthday as well as 2011 tracks "Shipwreck" and "This" from the album Monkeytown in addition to production contributions on the album's b-side "Dull Hull". In 2010 it was reported that Yorke would be covering Peter Gabriel's song "Wallflower" from Gabriel's fourth solo album Peter Gabriel 4 (Security) with Gabriel claiming "Thom wanted to do a version of Wallflower which I'm very curious to hear. The family finally settled in Oxfordshire in 1978.

He mainly plays guitar and piano but has also played drums and bass guitar (notably during the Kid A and Amnesiac sessions). 73 in Rolling Stone's "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" in 2005. Thomas "Thom" Edward Yorke (7 October 1968) is an English musician and artist who is the lead vocalist principal songwriter guitarist and pianist of the rock band Radiohead.

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