18 Alex Kapranos Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alex Kapranos

Scottish Musician

Born: Mar 20, 1972

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

You Matter Contain Adventurous Identity Got How Still Want Your

Maybe 'Can't Stop Feeling' and 'Turn It On' we'll just release as singles. It's a thing The Beatles used to do which I really loved, the idea of releasing something as a single completely on its own. Alex Kapranos

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

Best Good You Creative Editing Down Bits Songwriting Essentially Being

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. Alex Kapranos

Character Supermarket Beans Onstage Him Loose Toast Play Buying

Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens. Alex Kapranos

Wind Characters Kitchens Lots Up Working

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. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party. Alex Kapranos

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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it? Alex Kapranos

School Internet Girl Locker Locker Room Like After After-School Room

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

Great You Own Sense Embrace Only Begin Your

If I was a fan of someone as a teenager, then it's OK for me to feel completely in awe when I meet them. Alex Kapranos

Me Meet Teenager OK Someone Feel Fan Them Then Awe

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

Success Me Mad Would Had Along Come Either Sent

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.' Alex Kapranos

It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete. Alex Kapranos

Song Mind Rare Complete Falls Very Your

Why play a chord when you can play one note? Alex Kapranos

You Note Chord Why Play

I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour. Alex Kapranos

Think Tour Come Lot Off Bands Creatively

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. Alex Kapranos

Alone Good You Musical Way Detached About Good Way Glasgow Feel Like Quite Hanging Movements Anything Center Media Fashions

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

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