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.
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More Bradford Cox Quotes
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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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’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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I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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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.
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I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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.
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