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A song like “Walkabout”, it’s totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I’ve never really made a song to make people happy before.

Bradford Cox

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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Kids People Thinking
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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Beer Couple Hotel Realize Years
We all come back to our little worlds.
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Come Back Littles World
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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Done Real Thinking
That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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Culture Imitation Narrative
All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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Devotion Music Something
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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Sometimes Song Writing
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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Collaboration People World
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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Conscious Memories Really
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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Looks People Reading
The same people that always think I’m pretentious will think I’m pretentious, and the people who relate to me will continue to relate to me.
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People Pretentious Thinking
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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History Lot Music Old Storytelling
I’ve been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.
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Old Personal Things Wound
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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Disrespectful Meaning Peopel Want
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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Solitude Sometimes Strong
When money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
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Fire Late Loading Self Too

A song like “Walkabout”, it’s totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I’ve never really made a song to make people happy before.

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A song like “Walkabout”, it’s totally imitative. The goal of that song was to make people happy, and I’ve never really made a song to make people happy before.

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