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.

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

Why play a chord when you can play one note?

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

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 are loads of bands I’d love to produce.

The internet is like a gossipy girls’ locker room after school, isn’t it?

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

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

People’s musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.

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.

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

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

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.

It’s very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.

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

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.

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

I’m not a food critic, and I’m not really an authority to write anything on food.

I’d rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.