Thom Yorke Quotes

When I was five, I think, that's when I started wanting to be an actress. I loved to play. I didn't like the world around me because it was kind of grim, but I loved to play house. It was like you could make your own boundaries.

I think it's like music for the sake of music, and a lot of the words stem from liking music a lot, wanting to be a good band and having a good sense of humour, and living in a situation where we're free to pretty much do what we want.

With my voice and my band, I can do anything.

As a kid, I was into music, played guitar in a band. Then I started acting in plays in junior high school and just got lost in the puzzle of acting, the magic of it. I think it was an escape for me.

Music was my salvation, the thing I loved most and did best. Whatever was fun, I'd go do that.

We just want to be a band and play good music.

We want to be just like the greatest band. But I think we're just sort of both naturally humorous fellas.

On any given day, if I play the guitar, I can put myself somewhere. I always thought, 'This is the way you go.' It's like a magic carpet, see?

I fell in love with music because it gave me an escape, it gave me strength, and it gave me confidence.

All I thought about when I was a kid was getting my guitar and entertaining people.

I always wanted to do something with music, but to be honest, I never thought I'd be good enough.

I really wanted a guitar. As A little boy I used to tell people I was going to be a musician. They would humor me, and I'd make up thirty minute songs and drive them nuts.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Being in Birmingham, I thought I was going to be a gangster or a bag-runner or a thief. I heard music and I was determined to get out of there.

I grew up, I was going I want to be Jerry Lee Lewis. Only I can't play piano and sing that good.

If I cannot fly, let me sing.

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

I do write. I actually do want to start my music as well. My sister and I are starting a band. I've been playing a guitar for nine years, and she plays piano, and we sing together. We're going to start up something soon. I mostly am writing songs right now actually, but I would love to write a script someday.

It does not matter how strong your gravity is, we were always meant to fly.

One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.

The guitar is your first wings. It's assigned and designed to unfold your vision and imagination.

Rock and Roll is simply an attitude. You don't have to play the greatest guitar.

That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.

I should have been a country-western singer. After all, I'm older than most western countries.