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!
BRADFORD COXThey 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.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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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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I see a lot of people doing an “’80s thing” who weren’t even born until the ’90s.
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We didn’t have MTV, and I was desperate for something. You know, you’re young, you want something off the beaten path. And Twin Peaks was like, surrealism on network TV.
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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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Musicians and artists are not… it’s not like politicians or something where you can’t really affect them.
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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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I’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.
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I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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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.
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There’s not like this separate caste system where it’s like, “I’m the musician, you’re the audience. Never the two shall meet.” It was a case where it was like, “Hey, you know what? I’m on your level, man.”
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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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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.
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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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We all come back to our little worlds.
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