“I see a lot of people doing an "'80s thing" who weren't even born until the '90s.” Quote by Bradford Cox
“It's made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I've admired are.” MadeAgeYoungCertainGroupsCynicalYoung AgeOverlooked Author:Bradford Cox
“My entire education in music was in reading interviews with bands like Stereolab and finding out about Brazilian music or a Romanian composer. You expose yourself to what people you look up to admire.” PeopleLooksReadingBandFindingsAdmireInterviewsLook UpComposerBrazilian Music Author:Bradford Cox
“That's what culture is based on, the passing down of a certain narrative by imitation.” CertainCulturePassingPassingsNarrativeImitation Author:Bradford Cox
“I want the music to be heard as close to when I made it, as much as possible. I don't want to get into some "future of the music industry" thing, or where I stand on digital this or that, but I think it's ridiculous that a lot of people in the industry plan so far ahead that it makes a lot of improvisation impossible and makes a lot of people's expectations fixed and not fluid.” PeopleThinkingWantMadePlansImpossibleHeardIndustryExpectationsRidiculousMade ItFixedDigitalFluidImprovisationMusic Industry Author:Bradford Cox
“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
“I refuse to put myself into a situation in which I have to face some kind of "I'm losing it" kind of thing. I'm not "losing it"; it's changed. What it is is changing.” KindFacesSituationChangedLosingRefuse Author:Bradford Cox
“I used to be a lot more engaged on an improvisational level than other people. I was always on tour and always had a guitar in my hands, and when I went back home, my battery was at full charge. I had a lot of energy to get off, just impulses that I could draw upon.” PeopleHomeHandsUsedEnergyLevelsDrawsGuitarUsed To BeImpulseEngagedBack HomeBatteries Author:Bradford Cox
“I don't think you should make music to make music, just to show that you can. That's the opposite of vitality.” ThinkingShouldShowsOppositesVitality Author:Bradford Cox
“I think that there's a very lucid side in cinema: entering a theater and seeing the film.” ThinkingFilmSidesSeeingTheaterCinemaEntering Author:Miguel Gomes
“They say films they are made by computers. There are computer programs to see statistically what people are more interested in, and they practice computer combinations in these things to try to have more viewers.” PeopleTryingMadeFilmPracticeComputerProgramCombinationViewers Author:Miguel Gomes