Alex Kapranos Quotes - Page 2

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• If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.

  Alex Kapranos

  Mad, Ifs

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

  Alex Kapranos

  Song, Fall, Mind

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

  Alex Kapranos

  Band, Produce, Load

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Why play a chord when you can play one note?

  Alex Kapranos

  Play, Notes, Chords

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Criticism, Different

  "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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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.'

  Alex Kapranos

  Football, Stars, War

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• I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.

  Alex Kapranos

  Thinking, Band

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

  Alex Kapranos

  Hero, Villain, Persons

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• Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

  Alex Kapranos

  Men, Attractive, Company

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview With Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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• I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.

  Alex Kapranos

  Trying, Identity, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.

  Alex Kapranos

  Venom, Wacky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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!

  Alex Kapranos

  Attitude, Trying, Want

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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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Band, Enthusiasm, Pubs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.

  Alex Kapranos

  Years, Ties, Boho

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.

  Alex Kapranos

  Mcdonalds, Buns, Cows

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2010

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• I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Authority, Critics

  "Alex Kapranos of Franz Ferdinand". Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. February 14, 2007.

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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.'

  Alex Kapranos

  Impact, Sides, World

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Ideas, Feelings, Singles

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Hard Work, Healthy, Talent

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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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!

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Ideas, People

  "Arch dukes Ferdinand". Interview with Craig McLean, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 2, 2004.

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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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Party, Ideas, People

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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• People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

  Alex Kapranos

  Fashion, People, Musical

  "Bringing Sexy Back". Interview with Scott Frampton, www.marieclaire.com. January 6, 2008.

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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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Song, Play, Firsts

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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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.

  Alex Kapranos

  Principles, Income, Promoters

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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