53 Quotes by Bradford Cox

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

I’m working on one of the projects at a time and I’m the zone of that project. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong with this, and I might experiment with it in the future, but I’m not a fan of just random assemblages of songs at the moment.

It’s made me cynical at a young age to see how overlooked certain groups I’ve admired are.

You’re always as a musician trying to shock yourself or create music that’s maybe even too weird for your own taste.

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.

I know so many people think my music is quite influenced by Animal Collective, but honestly I think maybe the factor is that we’re both influenced by the same stuff.

I’m a really friendly guy, I guess, and I really like meeting people.

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.