Bradford Cox Quotes

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.

Bradford Cox

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• Show
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• I was an English major in college!

  

  Maggie Siff
  • College
  • English
  • Major

• But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Great
  • Emotional
  • Jazz

• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Life
  • Treat

• In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.

  

  Karen Maitland
  • Animals
  • London
  • Elephant

• Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Mind
  • New

• The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Interesting
  • City

• I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Relationship
  • Judged

• Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Man
  • Political
  • Control

• The thing about Iceland is that we are trapped there anyway, all of us. We have been trapped there for thousands of years.

  

  Baltasar Kormakur
  • Years
  • Been
  • Iceland

• Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Think
  • See
  • Hear

• Whenever anyone calls me 'The new J..K. Rowling,' I think, 'What's wrong with the old one?'

  

  Samantha Shannon
  • Think
  • Wrong
  • Old

• Language usage always has a political context.

  

  Jackson Katz
  • Political
  • Always
  • Language

• I originally wanted to be an astronaut when I was a kid. Then I had this huge fear of black holes because my brother learned a bunch of stuff about it, and he's like, 'Oh, yeah, if you go into one you're never coming back.'

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Black
  • Fear
  • Brother

• If you don't mind smelling like peanut butter for two or three days, peanut butter is darn good shaving cream.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Butter

• According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an entertainer. I knew that from the start.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Singing
  • Start
  • Grandmother

• Better a decent remake than a bad original, don't you think?

  

  Ram Charan
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Better

• I got a way to get through to kids. I try to take that and use that to my advantage. If we work on the kids right now, I'm telling you, they'll be making less mistakes, the jails will be gettin' less full. It's all about what we do with the kids.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Try

• I'm feminine, but I wouldn't say that I'm girly in any way at all.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Way
  • Say
  • Girly

• As someone who has led his party through two general elections, I have not always been immune from feeling the pressure of electioneering tactics.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • Feeling
  • Party

• So what I did was stuff my face with anything around, any old rubbish, burgers, chocolate, crisps, fish and chips, loads of it, till I felt sick - but at least I'd had the pleasure of stuffing my face and feeling really full.

  

  John Prescott
  • Feeling
  • Sick
  • Chocolate

• I think there's a song for every moment. I don't think there's one right love song.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Song

• Throughout the world, our insistence on individual freedom and opportunity has been at the bottom of what people think when they hear the very word 'American.'

  

  Jim Webb
  • People
  • World
  • American

• There are more people who are not straight, white males going to shows.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Shows
  • White

• 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.

  

  Bradford Cox
  • Feeling
  • Audience
  • Show