Quote

It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

Bradford Cox

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
Composer
Guitarist
Recording Artist
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Athens
Georgia
Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
Like
Asking
Attention
Didn
Really

More quotes by Bradford Cox

Image
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.
Bradford Cox
Image
I think people are intimidated by me, and I don't know why. Sometimes even my own bandmates can be intimidated, or irritated, by me.
Bradford Cox
Image
I like my solitude, and I'm a strong-willed person I'm a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
Bradford Cox
Image
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
Image
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?
Bradford Cox
Image
I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
Bradford Cox
Image
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
Image
That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
Bradford Cox
Image
I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
Bradford Cox
Image
You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
Bradford Cox
Image
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
Image
The Internet nowadays is all sensationalism, and it's just terrifying when you're actually experiencing it as a person.
Bradford Cox
Image
It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
Bradford Cox
Image
Everybody just needs to realize that when you write something you're just in one mood. I was told I needed to write it and it was overdue I don't even remember what day it was.
Bradford Cox
Image
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
Image
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.
Bradford Cox
Image
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
Image
I've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
Bradford Cox
Image
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.
Bradford Cox
Image
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.
Bradford Cox