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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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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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 think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
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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 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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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 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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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