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. — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
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 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
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… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early… — Alex Kapranos Copy Share Image
