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I think the younger kids need to realize there's this whole forgotten 90s that people don't really talk about.
Bradford Cox
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Bradford Cox
Age: 42
Born: 1982
Born: May 15
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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 see a lot of people doing an '80s thing who weren't even born until the '90s.
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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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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I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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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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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 feel very strongly about the subject matter in The Dallas Buyer's Club - about AIDS and people fighting illnesses, and fighting for survival against bad conditions.
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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'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?
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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 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 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 collaborate a little bit with different aspects of my own mind. I kick my own ass instead of kicking other people's asses.
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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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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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