When money and fame happen too late, it’s like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing.
BRADFORD COXYou think about people like Elvis, Kurt Cobain, or the Beatles, who grew up without privilege and needed a certain validation through peoples’ acceptance, or admiration from their peers. And money is part of that, but it always comes too late.
More Bradford Cox Quotes
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I don’t have anything to prove.
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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.
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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 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’m obsessed with five different things a day. It’s like lightbulbs in a Christmas light chain.
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I like playing at public schools. I like when there’s more of a diverse audience. I’ll play wherever people want to hear my music, and I’ll be glad and grateful for the opportunity, but I’d rather not play for a bunch of white privileged kids.
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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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All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.
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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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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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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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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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That’s what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.
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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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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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