Alex Kapranos Quotes & Sayings

Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me. — Alex Kapranos

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

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. — Alex Kapranos

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

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations. — Alex Kapranos

You're letting such a fragile side of yourself out when you're creating or writing music. To do that with people who are almost strangers would seem very strange to me. I think that we're very lucky that we're quite close. To us, it's almost like the band is the grandest possible adventure you can go on with your friends. It's really really exciting. — Alex Kapranos

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

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

People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion. — Alex Kapranos

Why play a chord when you can play one note? — Alex Kapranos

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

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete. — Alex Kapranos

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance. — Alex Kapranos

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

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

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

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

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women. — Alex Kapranos

No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. — Alex Kapranos

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. — Alex Kapranos

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

The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? — Alex Kapranos

Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history. — Alex Kapranos

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

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

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. — Alex Kapranos

The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. — Alex Kapranos

There are loads of bands I'd love to produce. — Alex Kapranos

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens. — Alex Kapranos

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

A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through. — Alex Kapranos

Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast! — Alex Kapranos

Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band. — Alex Kapranos

Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. — Alex Kapranos

You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. — Alex Kapranos

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

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

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

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

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour. — Alex Kapranos

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. — Alex Kapranos

I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds. — Alex Kapranos