I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a… — Quoted

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“I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music.”

Thom Yorke · Music

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Thom Yorke

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

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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.

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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 they're trying to write about. They have music.

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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 that's just the way it is.

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