Latest Alex Kapranos Quotes from Interviews

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• It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.

  Alex Kapranos

  Long, Trying, World

  Source: pitchfork.com

• You can't write for the cultural environment - if you do that, by the time it comes out, that cultural environment has passed. You have to be aiming for something that's original - that's the only way you can have any kind of impact.

  Alex Kapranos

  Writing, Kind, Environment

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I want to change and try new ideas - allowing your sonic identity to evolve in your music and not being afraid of that. You see musicians hit upon something that works, and then go, "Let's keep doing that for 10 years." And that idea kind of terrifies me a little bit. It becomes like a day job then.

  Alex Kapranos

  Trying, Identity, Musician

  Source: pitchfork.com

• I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.

  Alex Kapranos

  Football, Guy, Ridiculous

  Source: pitchfork.com

• Music should be universal. My life perspective, my lifestyle - I'm not going to impose that on the people that listen to my music. That's kind of a perverse form of snobbery I like to reject.

  Alex Kapranos

  Perspective, People, Kind

  Source: pitchfork.com

• For me upward social mobility is possible through talent and hard work and is a glowing endorsement of the benefits of living in a modern capitalist society. It's not so much evidence of a meritocracy, as evidence of healthy nepotism. Nepotism is at the core of a good group dynamic. A good group dynamic is at the core of rock'n'roll.

  Alex Kapranos

  Hard Work, Healthy, Talent

  Source: www.theguardian.com

• Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.

  Alex Kapranos

  Moving, Creativity, Personality

  Source: www.theguardian.com