Author: Alex Kapranos

Quotes

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

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

- Alex Kapranos

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

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

- Alex Kapranos

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.

- Alex Kapranos

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

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

- Alex Kapranos

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

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

- Alex Kapranos

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

- Alex Kapranos

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

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

- Alex Kapranos

A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.

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

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

- Alex Kapranos

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