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When Howard Met Thom

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Yorke, speaking more from an experienced, in-the-trenches-of-culture point of view, is cautious in his view of artists, saying that 'someone like Zinn views artists as the seers, idealizing them as the people responsible [for inspiring change].' In response to Zinn's astute analysis of art vs. entertainment, Yorke says, 'Yeah, I don't think we are [political] at all ... If you sit down and try to [make art] purposefully, and try to change this with this, and do this with that, it never works. I think the most important thing about music is the sense of escape ... I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.'
-- Eric Larson

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