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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

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 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 money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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.
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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 have really low self-esteem, and it's not easy for me to put myself on an album cover.
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I don't have anything to prove.
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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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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 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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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've always said I write albums I don't write random songs and then sort them out.
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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.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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 tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.
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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 don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.
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