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. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
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… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Ideally, musicians belong outside the Establishment. When they cross that line, it's like something in them has died. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
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… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image