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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
Bradford Cox
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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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Bradford James Cox
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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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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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 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 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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.
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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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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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 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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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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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I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
Bradford Cox
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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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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