Quotes by Bradford Cox

Bradford Cox

A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it’s good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.

Artist

Singing

Thinking

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I’m not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I’ll give it another shot.

Band

Giving

Something New

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. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.

Goal

People

Song

All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

Devotion

Devotional

Music Is

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

Homosexual

Jobs

Mediocrity

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.

Artist

Musician

Stuff

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; I can just rap with you and we can hang. I’m not gonna like sit there and bite my lip and ask questions about certain songs – okay I might do that once or twice. But it’s just, like, two people hanging out.

Hero

Rap

Song

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I’m just doing it live.

Automation

Mean

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

Albums

Song

Writing

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Age

Air

Albums

Animal

Artist

Aspiration

Ass

Automation

Band

Beach

Best Place

Boys

Bradford

Bullshit

Bunch

Car

Collaboration

Conscious

Culture

Cynical

Devotion

Devotional

Different

Dna

Done

Drinking

Easy

Expectations

Faces

Feelings

Fighting

Fire

Friendly

Gay

Giving

Goal

Groups

Guitar

Guy

Hard

Hero

Homosexual

Honesty

Ifs

Imitation

Irritated

Jobs

Kids

Kind

Littles

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Quotes by Bradford Cox

Bradford Cox

A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is singing it. I think it’s good if an artist can represent some kind of culture that they either aspire to ignite, or that they themselves experience.

A lot of bands wanna do something new all the time and never repeat themselves, but I’m not so interested in that. If I feel like I can do it better the second time, I’ll give it another shot.

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. I really genuinely wanted people to listen to that song and have their spirits lifted.

All music is devotional, whether it’s devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something.

As a homosexual, my job is simply to sodomize mediocrity.

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.

Everything I do is 100% automation, which means I’m just doing it live.

For me, experimenting involves traditionalism.

I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens.

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