Bradford Cox Quotes

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• I'm tired of watching attractive people trying to be ugly, struggling for authenticity. Why not be yourself?

  Bradford Cox

  Being Yourself, Struggle, Tired

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• I don't like the sound of my own voice. And, for people I don't know, their impression of me is what they read on the internet, and they're so far off a lot of the time. 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. I come across as arrogant somehow. In reality, I've probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.

  Bradford Cox

  Reality, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Bradford Cox

  Art, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think teenagers just don't have the persistence to pretend to like something they don't anymore. I used to do that - make myself like stuff that didn't immediately appeal to me. When you're 17 and checking out John Cage records from the library. It's not like it's got the hooks of a Ramones record, or a Beach Boys record. But at the same time, you're like, I know there's something in here that I'm supposed to understand. And then eventually you find it.

  Bradford Cox

  Beach, Teenager, Boys

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was only in the public eye because I was annoying. You know how neurotic people may ask for one thing when they may really want another thing? It was like I was asking for attention, but I didn't really want attention.

  Bradford Cox

  Eye, People, Attention

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Bradford Cox

  Thinking, Opposites, Vitality

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

  Bradford Cox

  Jobs, Mediocrity, Homosexual

  "Bradford Cox Talks "Shocking" Minneapolis Show" by Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. March 7, 2012.

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• When I go on a nostalgia trip it's not aesthetic. For me it's about trying to recapture the smell or the feeling of something that I've experienced in the past personally.

  Bradford Cox

  Past, Smell, Feelings

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I'm more into Neil Young and radical honesty.

  Bradford Cox

  Honesty, Young, Radical

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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

  Kids, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm obsessed with five different things a day. It's like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.

  Bradford Cox

  Different, Obsessed

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Bradford Cox

  School, Interesting, Library

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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

  Real, Aspiration

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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.

  Bradford Cox

  Writing, Guitar, Play

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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.

  Bradford Cox

  Faces, Losing, Kind

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

  Bradford Cox

  Old Wounds, Personal Things, Wounds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Sometimes, I do have something to say, so I'll sit there and I'll write a song to someone - and then I just throw it away because it makes me cringe.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I don't have the capacity to write stuff consciously. When I do, it's really awful.

  Bradford Cox

  Writing, Stuff, Awful

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I need punk rock. It's the medicine for me, but it's bitter and sickening. If you don't need it - if you're happy and healthy - run toward that.

  Bradford Cox

  Running, Rocks, Medicine

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.

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  Home, Guitar, Hands

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Contrary to popular belief, maybe, I'm a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people. And I'm not really super impressed even if you're my hero; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I'm not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs - okay I might do that once or twice. But it's just, like, two people hanging out.

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  Song, Rap, Hero

  Source: pitchfork.com

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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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  Couple, Beer, Years

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I'm real critical of myself. I think a lot of what I've done is boring indie rock. I didn't intend it to be that way, but somehow milk gets added to everything.

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  Real, Thinking, Done

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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  Trying, Musician, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

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