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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
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Glasgow's not a media center. When you're there, when you're hanging about, you feel quite detached from musical movements or fashions or anything like that. You do feel quite alone, in a good way.
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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.
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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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Surely every band wants to be a pivotal point in history.
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Being in a band didn't buy me my beans on toast!
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Traditionally, lots of vagrants and unemployable characters wind up working in kitchens.
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I really want it to have an impact on the world. I want to be in a town on the other side of the world, and somebody walks up and says, 'That music you made in Glasgow, I listened to it every day, and it moved me.'
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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.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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.
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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.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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You can only begin to be great when you embrace a sense of your own ridiculousness.
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Ambition is sneered at by some bands. It seems like a pretty good thing to me.
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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!
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A lot of bands have the enthusiasm kicked out of them by playing really dreary pub venues that just churn bands through.
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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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