Franz Ferdinand Quotes
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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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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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Now at least we know what we're letting ourselves in for. I'm enjoying it more two years down the road than I did.
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Three years ago, I used to go out a lot and I used to drink quite a lot. On a Sunday night, I'd think, 'Right, I have to sign on on Thursday, and I can't forget that' and now, into the space of one day, I'm cramming in what then I would have done in two weeks. I can barely remember my old life now.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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Can you imagine having a day like today with jet lag? We've done it before and I wouldn't like to again.
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As federal funds have become scarcer and the competition has increased, I think we see a lot of universities expanding their partnerships with industry.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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The transaction will allow greater economic efficiency in the build out and upgrade of our digital platforms.
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We were very disappointed last week and felt we let the supporters down, so I'm just delighted we have come back and done it for them this time. We're expecting a lot more of ourselves this year - the standards have stepped up - but we want to play for these supporters down here.
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We are trying to teach literature and literacy in a society which doesn't value it any more.
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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Thank you so much for your kind words.
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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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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
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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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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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You could always see that Alex was going to be in music, ... He never understands that question, 'What would you be if you weren't a musician?'
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You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting.