Alex Kapranos Quotes
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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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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.
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The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
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It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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You can always have it better. If you try... This is the right attitude. Never to feel completely satisfied, always to want to do something better!
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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
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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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Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.
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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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Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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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'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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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.