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I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

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Alex Kapranos
Age: 52
Born: 1972
Born: March 20
Guitarist
Musician
Singer
Songwriter
Almondsbury
Gloucestershire
Alexander Paul Kapranos Huntley
Veins
Dance
Blood
Inspirational
Music
Make
People
Surge

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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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The Beatles were huge for me, ... I used to jump around the room to the red album, the one with all the early hits on it. It made you feel euphoric. It was a sensation I couldn't get from anything else, whether it was playing football, swimming or even seeing 'Star Wars.'
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Boredom or being sick of what you've done before is a big part of being in a band.
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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.
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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.
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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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The best songwriting comes from being as creative as you can and editing it down to the good bits, essentially.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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.
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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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Men behave very oddly in the company of attractive women.
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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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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.
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