Quote by Thom Yorke
One of the interesting things here is that the people who should b

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

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I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is theyre trying to write about. They have music. – Thom Yorke

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Ive never believed that pop music is escapist trash. Theres always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music. – Thom Yorke

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

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All art constantly aspires towards the condition of music. – Walter Pater

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The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. – Golda Meir

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The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting. – Sun Tzu

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To us, who live in the nineteenth century, any century is a suitable subject for art except our own. The only beautiful things are things that do not concern us. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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