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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 don't have anything to prove.
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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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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.
Bradford Cox
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.
Bradford Cox
I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
Bradford Cox
I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
Bradford Cox
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.
Bradford Cox
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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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.
Bradford Cox
I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
Bradford Cox
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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We all come back to our little worlds.
Bradford Cox
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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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
I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
Bradford Cox
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.
Bradford Cox
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste.
Bradford Cox
Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
Bradford Cox
