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Bradford Cox Inspirational Quotes (49)

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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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I collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.
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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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I feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.
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I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard he was bi. Then somebody wrote, No, I heard he was asexual. And then somebody said, That's bullshit - he totally hit on my friend after a show.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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I've been used for writing rhythm guitar chords for a long time because it's so easy to play and chords just sound good on it.
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I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.
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When I got hit by the car, I became depressed. As a result, I've been on antidepressants and I feel like I have no sexuality left. People complain about that side effect, but I love it. I feel outside of society.
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I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we're both influenced by the same stuff.
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I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.
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A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.
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I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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I don't leave my room, and all I am surrounded by are guitars and equipment, y'know? It's not always the best place to be.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In my case it's kind of weird because I started out being known more for ambient things and ambiguous music, but what's experimental for me is the more traditional structure. For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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