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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.
Bradford Cox
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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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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.
Bradford Cox
I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
Bradford Cox
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
Bradford Cox
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'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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
Bradford Cox
It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
Bradford Cox
The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it's not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I'd have a drinking problem.
Bradford Cox
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.
Bradford Cox
I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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.
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?
Bradford Cox
I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
Bradford Cox
The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.
Bradford Cox
I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
Bradford Cox
