We all come back to our little worlds.
BRADFORD COXI’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.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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Unfortunately it’s hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
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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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I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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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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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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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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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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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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.
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Usually I’m not really conscious of what’s going on. I don’t have a lot of memories onstage. At all.
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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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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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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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