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One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#art #artists #because #certain #closed

I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#access #back #deal #great #great deal

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#absorb #around #generally #going #heads

I don't see it in terms of changing things, but rather using language and music as weapons for fighting a mainstream media which is predominately right wing, and loyal to the political framework and its corporate interests. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#corporate #corporate interests #fighting #framework #i

It is difficult to make political art work. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#art work #difficult #make #political #work

Hold me in your arms, lava lamp! Let me seek magma comfort and peace in the warmth of your kryptonite embrace. ↗

— Isabel Yosito

#comfort #embrace #hold #lamp #me

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, I've been reading a lot about the fifty years since the Second World War, about Western foreign policy and all that. I try not to let it get to me, but sometimes I just think that there's no hope. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#been #fifty #foreign #foreign policy #get

By perfecting this legislative machinery and by participating in the various international agreements we intend to contribute to the wholesome development of world trade. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#contribute #development #intend #international #legislative