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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.

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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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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I see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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.
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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 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 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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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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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.
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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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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.
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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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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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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 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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