I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
BRADFORD COXUnfortunately it’s hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
-
-
I think the younger kids need to realize there’s this whole forgotten 90s that people don’t really talk about.
BRADFORD COX -
I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
BRADFORD COX -
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.
BRADFORD COX -
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.
BRADFORD COX -
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.
BRADFORD COX -
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.
BRADFORD COX -
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
BRADFORD COX -
All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
BRADFORD COX -
You 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.
BRADFORD COX -
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.
BRADFORD COX -
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.
BRADFORD COX -
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 -
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.
BRADFORD COX -
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 -
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.
BRADFORD COX