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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.


Alex Kapranos


#although #aware #blind #blind person #explain

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


Alex Kapranos


#just #me #shop #student #who

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


#bloody #cinema #communicated #complex #direct

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.


Alex Kapranos


#alone #anything #center #detached #fashions

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


#basic #basic principle #being #dole #generate

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


#every #every day #glasgow #i #impact

I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.


Alex Kapranos


#false modesty #i #i think #indie #modesty

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


Alex Kapranos


#come #completely #either #had #i

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.


Alex Kapranos


#contain #got #how #identity #matter

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


#because #chord #comfortable #doing #drum






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