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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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 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 obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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When I do a record, it sounds more punk and raw. Or it will sound louder, or it will sound more shocking. Or mind-boggling. I'll be trying to figure it out, but once I've got it figured out I'll be like, I know this I know where this came from. I think art is most interesting when the intention is not clear.
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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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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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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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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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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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 don't have anything to prove.
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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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