Best Alex Kapranos Quotes
- The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially. Best
- 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. Beans
- Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens. Character
- 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.… Always Comfortable
- People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion. Fashion
- You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time. First Time
- The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? Girl
- You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness. Begin
- No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you. Create
- It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete. Complete
- There's a difference between expectations and aspirations. Aspiration
- Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'. Arty
- 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… Around Backstage
- 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… Alternative
- Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women. Attractive
- Why play a chord when you can play one note? Chord