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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My songs are my kids. Some of them stay with me, some others I have to send out, out to the war. It might sound stupid and it might even sound naive, but thats just the way it is. – Thom Yorke

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War
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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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History
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The people in charge, globally, are maniacs. They are maniacs, and unless we do something about it these people are going to deprive us of a future. – Thom Yorke

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Art
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The first mistake of art is to assume that its serious. – Lester Bangs

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Art

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself. – Henry Miller

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If you cannot learn to love real art at least learn to hate sham art. – William Morris

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Surrealism: An archaic term. Formerly an art movement. No longer distinguishable from everyday life. – Brad Holland

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Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him. – English Proverb

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Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior. – Candice Bergen

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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself. – Thomas Hobbes

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