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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
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Athens
Georgia
Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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Authenticity
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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.
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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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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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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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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'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 read a lot - surveys of vernacular music. A lot of it is the Harry Smith Anthology of American Folk Music, which I've loved since I was in high school. They had it at the library and I always thought that was interesting, even when I was into punk and stuff. Just the history of storytelling and the amount of melancholy a lot of old music has.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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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I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.
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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 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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I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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