#co

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. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#bloody #cinema #communicated #complex #direct

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. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#basic #basic principle #being #dole #generate

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

— Alex Kapranos

#come #creatively #i #i think #lot

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

— Alex Kapranos

#come #completely #either #had #i

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

— Alex Kapranos

#contain #got #how #identity #matter

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

— Alex Kapranos

#falls #mind #rare #song #very

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

#because #chord #comfortable #doing #drum

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

#completely #feeling #i #idea #just

Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#behave #company #men #oddly #very

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. ↗

— Alex Kapranos

#becomes #certain #course #elitism #feels