Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Turns
Release
Idea
Completely
Feelings
Single
Used
Loved
Ideas
Turn
Thing
Stop
Releasing
Something
Maybe
Singles
Really
Feeling
Beatles

More quotes by Alex Kapranos

Image
Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
Alex Kapranos
Image
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
Alex Kapranos
Image
It's fine to indulge yourself so long as you don't try and foist it on the rest of the world.
Alex Kapranos
Image
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
Image
Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
Alex Kapranos
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
Alex Kapranos
Image
There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
Alex Kapranos
Image
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
Image
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.
Alex Kapranos
Image
Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
Alex Kapranos
Image
Boho to me is a first-year student who's just discovered the tie-dye shop.
Alex Kapranos
Image
The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
Alex Kapranos
Image
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
Image
It's very rare that a song falls from your mind complete.
Alex Kapranos
Image
I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.
Alex Kapranos
Image
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
Image
There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.
Alex Kapranos