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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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Bradford James Cox
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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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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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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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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you're like, Oh man, I'm gonna pick a team to be on! I'm gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it's just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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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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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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 always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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 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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I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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