Alex Kapranos
Alex Kapranos
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley, commonly known as Alex Kapranos, is a British musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of the Glasgow-based rock band Franz Ferdinand...
NationalityScottish
ProfessionRock Singer
Date of Birth20 March 1972
attitude trying want
You can always have it better. If you try... [This is the right attitude:] Never to feel [completely] satisfied, always to want to do something better!
impact trying matter
No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
filming party pool recognized shook steven trying
I got recognized around the pool the other night. They were filming a party for the E! channel. It was really distressing because there were all these wanna-be celebrities. I was trying to get out of there before the Steven Seagal look-alike shook my hand, and I thought, 'Please, God, tell me I'm not of this world'.
challenge embraced encouraged felt fit insider losing miserable provoke saw status suddenly trying value worry
For years, I felt miserable about being an outsider, but then I suddenly embraced it, ... I saw the value of being an outsider. It was liberating. You didn't have to worry about trying to fit in or losing your insider status. It also encouraged you to challenge and provoke the status quo.
case trying
It's not a case of reinventing yourself, it's a case of trying to be adventurous,
according changes pop radio song starts
I suppose, ... but that's why they get it wrong. That's why they wouldn't play Take Me Out on the radio at first, because according to pop theory, it isn't a hit. It starts with one song and changes into another. In theory, it's all wrong. The same with Do You Want To.
drum experiment floor half hand kit legs playing setting tom ways weird
Outsiders. He had this weird contraption of a drum kit where he was playing half with a tambourine in one hand and the floor tom between his legs -- just to experiment with different ways of setting up.
band sound together
We didn't get our band together because we wanted to sound like any other bands,
play notes chords
Why play a chord when you can play one note?
ideas feelings singles
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.
character play buying
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.
party ideas people
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.
fashion people musical
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
song play firsts
You really only understand whether a song's good or not when you properly play it out in public for the first time.