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" You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. "
Alex Kapranos
You
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Only
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" Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. "
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" People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion. "
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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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" 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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" If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad. "
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" The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? "
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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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" Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance. "
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" Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens. "
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" 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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" The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. "
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" There's a difference between expectations and aspirations. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds. "
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