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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

Bradford Cox

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
Composer
Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Athens
Georgia
Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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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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I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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I don't know if I have any real aspirations to be an actor. It was just something I was asked to do in sort of a friend way. And I thought, Why not?
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I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.
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When I started having a couple of beers and loosening up, I realized how many years I had wasted going back to my hotel room alone when I could have gone and just had a beer or two.
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I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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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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 don't have anything to prove.
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Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
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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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You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
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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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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 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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My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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