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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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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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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'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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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A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I'm not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I'll give it another shot.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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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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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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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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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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