Alex Kapranos Quotes
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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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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.
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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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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.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.
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I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
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I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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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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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.