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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
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Guitarist
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Singer-Songwriter
Athens
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Bradford James Cox
Atlas Sound
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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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I have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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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'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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 money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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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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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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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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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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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 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'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
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I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.
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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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