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 COXAudiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that they’re doing now.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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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.
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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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All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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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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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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We all come back to our little worlds.
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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.
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When money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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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 want to build an audience that’s willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.
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I’m gonna put my two cents in as my status update on my Facebook page” or something. Not to sound like an anti-technology person, but it’s just a real drag that people live their lives that way.
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I’ve been going through a lot of… stuff. I need some space, which people were very kind enough to give me, and I feel really gracious about that. Nobody forces me to do things or say things or do interviews.
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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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The sober guy is always going to have this air of arrogance or self-righteousness, but it’s not my intention. I just knew that if I drank, I’d have a drinking problem.
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I don’t have anything to prove.
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