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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
Surge
Veins
Dance
Blood
Inspirational
Music
Make
People

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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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There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.
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Why play a chord when you can play one note?
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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.
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Anyone can play an instrument if you show them how to move their limbs, lips or fingers the right way. It's irrelevant. What is relevant is personality, energy, creativity and disturbing sense of humour.
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I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
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The internet is like a gossipy girls' locker room after school, isn't it?
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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.
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No matter what you do, if you're trying to create something new, your environment has a massive impact on you.
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A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way.
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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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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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I'd rather eat a cow-pat on a bun than a bloody McDonalds.
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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.
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Arty. To me the word's got as much venom associated with it as 'wacky'.
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I think a lot of bands are creatively knackered when they come off tour.
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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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I find American football quite ridiculous generally. I don't understand it. It looks like a lot of guys dressed up as spacemen shouting at each other.
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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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People's musical tastes are fickle, and music can be a fashion.
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