You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.
BRADFORD COXYou’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.
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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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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Audiences 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.
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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.
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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 a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.
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People say ‘I don’t want to die alone!’ But you know what, honestly? I don’t want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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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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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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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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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!
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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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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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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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