Quotes by Alex Kapranos

About Alex Kapranos:

Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley is a Scottish musician and the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow-based band Franz Ferdinand.
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.

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Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.

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

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There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

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

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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'

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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.

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

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I think in the world of indie music there's this sort of false modesty.

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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.

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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!

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Author Bio

  • NameAlex Kapranos
  • DescriptionEnglish rock musician
  • BornMarch 20, 1972
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionGuitarist; Singer