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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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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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them. – Nelson Mandela

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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony. – Madeleine LEngle

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Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down. – Malcolm De Chazal

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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art – that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts. – Charles Baudelaire

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Presents dont really mean much to me. I dont want to sound mawkish, but – it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love. – Gabriel Byrne

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