I think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.
BRADFORD COXYou gotta have friends, and it’s really hard to have friends that don’t operate on the same schedule as you or do the same kind of things you do, because they don’t understand it.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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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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Unlike the rest of everyone I hang around with, I don’t drink, so I remember what happened after shows. And I have never hit on anyone after a show, I’m not that kind of person. Even if I was attracted to someone, I’d be too shy.
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You read about that Black Lips/Wavves fight as a spectator and you’re like, “Oh man, I’m gonna pick a team to be on!
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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.
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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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I’m not meaning that in a disrespectful way; you go where people want to hear your music. So if that’s where people want to hear me play.
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I like my solitude, and I’m a strong-willed person; I’m a very hard-to-be-around person sometimes, I guess.
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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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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I’m not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever – which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is a form of narcissism but you’ll have to ask him about that.
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I want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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People say ‘I don’t want to die alone!’ But you know what, honestly? I don’t want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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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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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.
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