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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.

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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 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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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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 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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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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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Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue I don't even remember what day it was.
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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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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 tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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'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'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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