Quotes By Alex Kapranos
There's a character that I play onstage, and I can't let him loose in the supermarket when I'm buying my beans on toast.
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It's easy to be lazy when there's food lying around backstage or there's a fast-food joint a couple blocks away. But if you walk a little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.
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Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they're having. But they never feel it themselves, and it's impossible to explain. It's like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.
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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.
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Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own.
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If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them.
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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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