Alex Kapranos Quotes

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• Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
• A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
• I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
• 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.…
• Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
• I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
• It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
• The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits…
• 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…
• 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…
• A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
• 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…
• Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
• Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
• Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
• Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas…
• 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…
• 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,…
• I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
• I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

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