Bradford Cox Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• I was trying to write a song based on a story in a random book of Puerto Rican short stories that I found in a thrift store. I thought it was really dark, and so I tried to interpret it. I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Book, Writing

  Source: pitchfork.com

• A song like "Walkabout", it's totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I've never really made a song to make people happy before. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, People, Goal

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing, Straight Up

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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

• I realized I had written maybe, I dunno, the first ever asexual love song. Where it's really just about a fear of dying alone - you need contact, you need love, you need empathy. You need this relationship but if there's no sex involved, people act like it's not a legitimate relationship.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Love You, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Writing, Albums

  Source: pitchfork.com

• 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.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Rap, Hero

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I'm working on one of the projects at a time and I'm the zone of that project. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with this, and I might experiment with it in the future, but I'm not a fan of just random assemblages of songs at the moment.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Fans, Might

  Source: pitchfork.com

• When you listen to the Anthology of American Folk Music, or anything like that - a compilation of garage bands from the Northeast in the early '60s - you're not necessarily listening to the band and thinking about the lead singer, or the story of the group, or the context or the mythology of the group. You're just listening to the song and whether or not it has a hook.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Thinking, Listening

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

• The first thing I think I ever played in public, aside from singing in church, would have been - and this is a true story - when I was about nine or 10 years old, I was obsessed with Twin Peaks. I played the theme from Twin Peaks on a little tiny Casio keyboard. People politely applauded. I just fell in love with that song and thought it was very heartbreaking.

  Bradford Cox

  Song, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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