Thom Yorke Quotes

My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.

I'm just trying to make music everybody can get happy to and vibe to and turn up to. So long as I keep making good music, everything's going to be OK.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

I'm happy, so I just want to project that happiness through my music to make other people happy.

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

I want to take people away from the ugliness and sadness around us every day and bring beautiful, deep music to as many people as I can.

Good sounds, they just make you feel good.

A lot of time I like to sing music that people can relate to, but not necessarily put them in a depressed mood.

My goal for 'Black Rock' was pretty simple: I wanted to make the feel-good record of the summer.

I've tried to write songs that just make people feel happy and good.

Every year, I always go abroad with dark music, and I'm going to these places, and I feel like I want a party rep - I want something that everyone is going to go crazy to and enjoy and have a good feeling.

With 'City of Black & White,' I wanted a record that would make you feel good, that would sort of take you up in its hand and sweep you along.

The entertainment industry can feel so serious. But at the end of the day, it's music and it's supposed to be positive and make people feel good.

If music ever needs FDA approval in the future, bands like this will be the reason why; Magic Kids' sugar-coated songs paint a mental picture of smiling clouds and double rainbows, with a unicorn or two tossed in for good measure.

I think, bad times, I sit down and I play - there's definitely certain songs that touch in certain ways. I go back to 'Moonlight Sonata' by Beethoven; that usually takes care of everything.

It is funny to me that people think of St. Lucia as this, like, feel-good band.

I just like playing songs with happy vibes and good feelings.

'Ice Cream' is such a sweet song, just like ice cream! Whenever I need to relieve some stress, or just want to feel better about something, I listen to it.

I like to try to keep my music happy because it can make other people happy. And that's the way I feel when I listen to Avicii's songs. I get happy because his melodies are so happy.

You got a way with words, you keep me smiling, even when it hurts.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

There is nothing perhaps so generally consoling to a man as a well-established grievance; a feeling of having been injured, on which his mind can brood from hour to hour, allowing him to plead his own cause in his own court, within his own heart, and always to plead it successfully.