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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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

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If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. Thats the whole point. The gloaming has begun. Were in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history. – 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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My first love is art, and I see a lot of things in an artistic way. – Robert Carlyle

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Art requires neither complaisance nor politeness nothing but faith, faith and freedom. – Gustave Flaubert

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He who possesses art and science has religion he who does not possess them, needs religion. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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…Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art. – Oscar Wilde, “The Decay of Lying: A Dialogue,” in The Nineteenth Century: A Mont

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