88 Quotes by Alex Kapranos

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

Although they might not admit it, I think girls are very aware of the impact that they’re having. But they never feel it themselves, and it’s impossible to explain. It’s like trying to tell a blind person what yellow is.

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

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 little further, ask around a bit, of course there are exciting things to discover.

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

Boredom or being sick of what you’ve done before is a big part of being in a band.

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

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.

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.