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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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Athens
Georgia
Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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 don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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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 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 refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of I'm losing it kind of thing. I'm not losing it it's changed. What it is is changing.
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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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I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate caste system where it's like, I'm the musician, you're the audience. Never the two shall meet. It was a case where it was like, Hey, you know what? I'm on your level, man.
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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'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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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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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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'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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