Scottish - Musician | March 20, 1972 -
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
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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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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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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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Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died.
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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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