Alex Kapranos Quotes

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.
If success had come along when I was 17 it would either have killed me or sent me completely mad.
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.
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
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.
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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.
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
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.
There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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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20 March, 1972
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