People sometimes tell me to fuck off, I ask them if they’re happy.
Thom Yorke (via dbkarp)
[citation needed]
See, dbkarp switched the words around, changing the original quote.
The problem is that he tagged it with “It’s a joke”, but like a game of “Telephone” that fact has been lost in the reblogs. Now it’s joined the many other fake Thom Yorke quotes floating around. This stuff gets on my nerves a bit, sorry.
Cite your sources people, or make some indication that it’s a fake quote like dbkarp did.
“People sometimes ask me if I’m happy and I tell them to fuck off,” says Yorke later in the bar of his hotel. “If I was happy, I’d be in a fucking car advert. A lot of people think they’re happy, and then they live these boring lives and do the same things every day. But one day they wake up and realize that they haven’t lived yet. I’d much rather celebrate the highs and lows of everyday life than try to deny them.”
- “RADIOHEAD Transform Emotional Turmoil into Kinetic Pop” by John Wiederhorn, Rolling Stone, 7 September 1995.
(via pressdonotswallow)
This is getting a hell of a lot more notice than I imaged, so let me clarify.
Many months ago, I posted the original quote. Since then, it has been reblogged countless times, and it now posses nearly three thousand notes. That is a problem in itself. Rarely does a day go by when I do not punch myself for not posting the full quote, as I’m sure many of the people reblogging the original from me are twisting Thom’s words to have a significantly different meaning.
Anyway, I get a couple notes on that post every day, and so it keeps popping up on my tumblog. Today, I got particularly annoyed with it, and decided to mess with it for fun, in what I saw as a sort of ironic show of how I detested what the original had come to signify. I assumed none but the few people who knew how much of a pain this entire ordeal is would get the joke. However, seemingly dozens of people have taken not of it, NEARLY ALL OF THEM misinterpreting my deliberate misquotation whose true purpose was to reference a very insignificant episode.
I hope this makes everything clear now.
(Source : angelfire.com, via pressdonotswallow)