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When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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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.
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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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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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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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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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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.
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