03UndatedI've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.Thom Yorke / quote ↗
04UndatedOne 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedI 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 / quote ↗
06UndatedGenerally 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 / quote ↗
08UndatedI think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.Thom Yorke / quote ↗
