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Alex Kapranos Quotes

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: scottish
Birth: March 20, 1972

Topics

Good Time Song You Play Understand

I love being outside with my boys, playing tag or trying to keep up with them.

Love Trying Outside Up Playing Keep

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

Rudyard Kipling

Woman Fool Man Clever Needs Very

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Music Wisdom Philosophy Revelation

Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director.

Denis Villeneuve

Hero Me Writing World Early Young

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Age Myself Peace Past I Am Looking

Sometimes someone that is the 'villain' in your life, when you look deeper and you think of what their issues are and why they behave like that and where they came from - they become less of a villain and more of someone that you can understand.

Life Villain Think Someone You Look

It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.

Arthur C. Clarke

Stars Perspective Men Patriotism

I didn't really want to sing at first, but my dad insisted that I do.

Aretha Franklin

Want First Sing Really Dad Insisted

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.

Atifete Jahjaga

Life Politics Democracy Better Build

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

Publilius Syrus

Regret Silent Never Been Spoken

I don't go to parties in general.

Go General Parties

Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

Slavery Carpet Something Often Too

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