A Quote by Alex Kapranos
People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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I think there's a huge parallel that affects my musical taste, and connections that have to do with my ethnic diversity and my musical tastes and the diversity of that. And it's interesting that, growing up on the circuit, it posed such a challenge, not only to me deciding what my identity was amongst my peers, but then on the music side, it was like trying to explain or convince people especially in the music industry that there was a place for what I was trying to do. But at the same time, I think it has a lot to do with timing and even me, like, understanding it.
Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.
Fashion can be a very fickle lady, especially when it comes to models - fashion likes to turn on its own.
It's like my parents' musical tastes are the mother and father of my music. It's their fault for making me so emotional and in tune with my emotions!
Pop music is a fashion, and fashions come and go. The public retires you as their tastes change.
I grew up listening pretty much just to pop music. But the older I've gotten, the more varied my musical tastes have become.
I'm a bit suspicious of people who are narrow in their musical tastes.
If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.
From our earliest days in Liverpool, George and I on the one hand and Paul on the other had different musical tastes. Paul preferred 'pop type' music and we preferred what is now called 'underground'. This may have led to arguments, particularly between Paul and George, but the contrast in tastes, I'm sure, did more good than harm, musically speaking, and contributed to our success.
I think my style is quite grungy and punky. I love the '90s and the music from that time, and I love punk music. I'm also a fan of mixing vintage with some high fashion, which links back to my musical taste because I tend to mix old music with newer songs.
The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.
In the '60s, people had diverse tastes, which made the musical climate that much better and more interesting.
My musical tastes - I'm always searching for new things. I know a lot of people say they listen to everything, but I kind of do.
It's a difficult thing to be in fashion or popular - it's all so fickle.
If your taste goes wrong or you listen to other people's tastes too much, even though they could make a fantastic movie out of it with their own tastes, if they blend their tastes with mine, it's probably going to be a mess.
Most people my age, their musical life ended in the '80s. They stick with what they know. But my tastes are much broader. And I don't want to stop learning.
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