“I want to satisfy the listener, exactly. I want to entertain the audience. I want the people to leave the show with the feeling I used to leave shows with when I was young, and I couldn't get over it for another three or four days after it. I just kept reliving the set in my mind.” PeopleWantMindShowsFeelingsYoungUsedThreeAudienceFourOver ItListenersGet Over Author:Bradford Cox
“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.” ArtistGivenStuffAudienceMusician Author:Bradford Cox
“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 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."” KnowsMenTwoArtistLevelsCasesAudiencePoliticianMusicianHeyCastesHey YouCaste System Author:Bradford Cox
“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. 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, I'm glad to play for them. But I'd rather play for an audience where half of them were not into it than one where all of them were pretending to be into it, for fear of being uncultured.” PeopleKidsSchoolOpportunityAudienceGratefulGladPretendingDiversePublic SchoolDisrespectful Author:Bradford Cox
“I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose.” Audience Author:Bradford Cox
