Bradford Cox Quotes

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 it away because it makes me cringe.

Bradford Cox

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  Randy Houser
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• I get so excited when a song I wrote that's very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• With technology now, you can go in and sing a song, and for $100,000, you will sound flawless.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
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• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  

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• My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

  

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• 'The One-Eyed Man' is a novel that was one I never intended to write.

  

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• Toil without song is like a weary journey without an end.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• I did a song in eight minutes. I thought everybody could write songs that fast. But working with a lot of them, they don't.

  

  Young Thug
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• If you have a song that you think sounds like another song you should contact the publishing company and say I have a song here, let's cut a deal that lets everyone walk away feeling good.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Good
  • Song
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• I didn't used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We'd perform, and I'd be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain't never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage.

  

  Young Thug
  • Thinking
  • Song
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• The one album I can't live without is called 'Cumbolo' by a band called Culture. Every song on their album is deep, but there's one in particular called 'This Train.' I have a tattoo of the lyrics on my left arm.

  

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  • Live
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• Once I come up with the concept, the rest of the song just comes.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Up
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• Within the songwriting community, there are these unwritten rules for the way that a song should be written in country music, and I think that those rules are constantly being broken over the years, and the molds change and the process is evolving.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Music
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• With a track like 'White Christmas,' everybody has done that song in every format you can imagine, so I just looked at the chords at that particular song and what chords would make it work. That's kind of quite a sad song, and I had this idea of someone singing it in the subway, someone who is homeless, old and sad.

  

  Vince Clarke Depeche Mode
  • Work
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• I don't like when a song goes from one mood to another unless it's going to be out of sight.

  

  Britt Daniel
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• 'TTM' started off being a feature. A producer wanted me to just hop on the beat, like a Diplo type of thing. When I recorded the song, I liked it a lot, and I figured, instead of them paying me to do this, I'd rather just use this for my project, and we can just get money together.

  

  Rakim Hasheem Allen
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• Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

  

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• All men that date me have to know that their name may end up in a pop song.

  

  Kesha
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• It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.

  

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• I have these big brown eyes, so ever since I was a baby, you could tell what I was feeling and thinking based on my eyes.

  

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  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Eyes

• He hugged her again, before she could put some distance between them. Then the most sneaky wolf in the den lowered his voice and whispered, “But you’ve got an advantage, sweetheart. You’re already in his head. And you know how to mess with it.

  

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  • She
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• The last time I was on a small set would've been probably My Left Foot.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • Time
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• I used to be opposed to collaboration, and that's probably why the music in the past wasn't as good. Writing with other people, especially the great writers that I've had the privilege to write with, it activates something in your mind that you wouldn't use alone.

  

  Charlie Puth
  • People
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• 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 it away because it makes me cringe.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Song
  • Write
  • Cringe