Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
BRADFORD COXWhen 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.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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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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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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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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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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In reality, I’ve probably got the lowest self-esteem of anybody I know, which has really been rubbed in my face lately in personal situations.
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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 a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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Talk to Arto Lindsay and I’m sure he’s tired of people asking him about DNA; he’s probably really into what he’s doing now, which is good stuff.
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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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What could be more experimental than me writing a straight up love song?
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I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.
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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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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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 don’t have anything to prove.
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