I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Audiences tend to dig the earlier stuff by any given musician, and the artists themselves always tend to prefer the thing that… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
All music is devotional, whether it's devotion to products, face washes, creams, plastic. Everybody is devoted to something. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Unfortunately it's hard for me to be a fanboy for anything these days just because I see so much music. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I've always said I write albums; I don't write random songs and then sort them out. — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I've got this thing where I always kind of diss the older stuff and favor the newer stuff. I mean, it's not… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
Musicians and artists are not... it's not like politicians or something where you can't really affect them. There's not like this separate… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
A lot of Appalachian music has a certain haunted, foggy feel to it; a certain sinister quality. And that transcends who is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I like playing at public schools. I like when there's more of a diverse audience. I'll play wherever people want to hear… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. In… — Bradford Cox Copy Share Image
You gotta have friends, and it's really hard to have friends that don't operate on the same schedule as you or do the same… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
When money and fame happen too late, it's like pouring kerosene over a fire of self-loathing. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I don't think it will ever be lessened. Because I always move on to something else - and the music that I listen to,… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
You're always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that's maybe even too weird for your own taste. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I always write the first and last song of an album first, and then the middle just kind of happens. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I'm not the guy in the dress with the blood and the unrequited gay whatever - which, according to my psychiatrist, my gayness is… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I'm interested in acting as much as I'm interested in gardening. I want to garden, eventually. I want to learn how to do a… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
I am asexual. A-sexual. I read somewhere, maybe on Facebook, where somebody said something like, "I heard Bradford was gay, but then I heard… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
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… — Bradford Cox Copy Share
Usually I'm not really conscious of what's going on. I don't have a lot of memories onstage. At all. — Bradford Cox Copy Share
