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I don't have anything to prove.

Bradford Cox

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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
Composer
Guitarist
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Athens
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Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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 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 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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It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.
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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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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You don't need to drink if you have emotional problems.
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